Comfort Women Research Paper

During World War II, about 200,000 women from Korea were forced to be sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. I chose this topic because I feel many people do not know these brute facts about Korean women. These Korean women that were tortured physically and physiologically deserve for their story to be told and to be known. Comfort women were derived in order to supply comfort to the Japanese military men. South Korean women were taken to Japanese military stations also called comfort stations in China. Then they were forced to give sexual favors to the military officers and soldiers. They are referred to as “comfort women” but the lives they endured were far from it. At the start of World War II Korean women just starting puberty were coerced into the sex trade. Many were kidnapped at the young age of ten. While some were kidnapped, others were tricked by false promises of job opportunities (Who were Comfort Women?).
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Against their will, they were forced to have sex with thirty to forty soldiers daily over the time span of many years (The Truth About Comfort Women). Some even report of being raped for a twenty-four hour period constantly around the clock. Niyem says she lived in a small tent with two other girls. Soldiers would come through her tent and rape them in the presence of each other. She only could get a small amount of water from a ditch and had little to nothing to eat. Within the first two months of being there she describes her innocent body as being destroyed (The Truth About Comfort Women).
The more “fortunate” women were given money for their services. Unfortunately they rarely saw any of their payment because it was deducted for such things as shelter, food, and cosmetics. In unique conditions, some women did not live at the comfort shelter. These women worked in factories but were still brutally raped simultaneously while they worked (A