Comfort Woman
Tuesday, April 03 2007
Comfort Woman
'Comfort women' after WWII
When 16-year-old Ok Sun Kim was kidnapped from her home in Korea in 1938, she could not have dreamed she was heading into 7 years of sexual enslavement.
One of an estimated 50,000-200,000 so-called 'comfort women' who serviced the Japanese Army during World War II, Ms. Kim still bears the physical and emotional scars of accommodating 50-60 men a day.
Ok Sun Kim
Even now at 84 years old, Ms. Kim -- along with other survivors -- is fighting for an official apology from the Japanese government, and an acknowledgment of its role in the enterprise.
- Learn more about 'comfort women'
- See pictures of the women during and after the war
YOUR STORY - PAM ROCK
Pam Rock writing letters home to friends from Guatemala
Thousands
of young Americans make their first foreign trip as a part of the Peace
Corps volunteer program. Pam Rock signed up because she was interested in working
in a developing country and sharing ideas on nutrition and women's health.
Pam was also living in Florida and eager to improve her Spanish.
But for Pam, the Peace Corps experience was not a lot of fun, even months into her time abroad. Then, one day, she read something that changed her perspective, not only of her time in the Peace Corps, but for her whole life.
- Read the letter Pam wrote home about 'expectations'
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