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S.Korea s few surviving comfort women face life s end as political fight rages on
Reuters | Jul 02, 2021 11:11 PM EDT
Former South Korean comfort woman Lee Ok-sun speaks during an interview with Reuters at the House of Sharing in Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, (Photo : REUTERS/Heo Ran)
Fighting disease, death and disillusionment, members of South Korea s rapidly dwindling sisterhood of surviving comfort women say they are facing the twilight of their lives with diminished camaraderie and will to wage political battles.
Only 14 of the 240 registered survivors of Japan s wartime brothels are still alive in South Korea, nearly half the number who were alive just three years ago.
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Updated : 2021-01-24 10:32
Graphic novelist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim poses after an interview with The Korea Times at a cafe on Ganghwa Island, Jan. 15. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk
By Kwak Yeon-soo
GANGHWA ISLAND ― In 2020, cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim s graphic novel Grass won the prestigious Harvey Award for best international comic book. She was the first Korean cartoonist to win the prize, becoming a trailblazer in showing how subtle and serious the graphic narrative can be. Grass, which has been translated into 14 languages, depicts the life of a comfort woman, a victim of Japan s wartime sexual slavery. Based on the testimony of the now elderly survivor of wartime sex slavery, Lee Ok-sun, Gendry-Kim addresses issues related to women and social class.