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Kim Hak-sun

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About Kim Hak-sun

Kim Hak-sun was a Korean human rights activist who campaigned against sex slavery and wartime sexual violence. Kim was one of the victims who had been forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army between the early 1930s up until the end of the Pacific War. She is the first woman in Korea to come forward publicly and testify her experience as a comfort woman for the Japanese military. Her testimony was made on 14 August 1991. In December 1991, she filed a class-action lawsuit against the Japanese government for the damages inflicted during the war. She was the first of what would become hundreds of women from Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Netherlands who came forward to tell their stories of their enslavement to the Imperial Japanese military. She was inspired to finally take her story public after 40 years of silence by the growth of the women's rights movement in South Korea. Kim died in 1997 and her court case was still ongoing.

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by MBC PD수첩 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

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Occupation: human rights defender
Position held: comfort woman
Citizenship: South Korea
Born: October 20, 1924
Died: December 16, 1997

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