Why Korean comfort women Why Korean comfort women during Korean War and why Korean collaborators Because it is true It all happened and it was all discuss probably before you were born So we look to the academics and newspapers for reference From The Construction of US Camptown Prostitution in South Korea Transformation and Resistance by Lee Na Young 2006 The term comfort women wianbu to refer to military prostitutes serving American soldiers signals the widespread acceptance of camptown prostitution as an inevitable means to entertain foreign soldiers This term was commonly used in newspaper articles throughout the 1950s along with such phrases as prostitutes catering to UN soldiers and terms like yanggongju Western princesses or UN madams woman getting a livelihood by serving UN soldiers 129 This usage continued during the 1960s and 1970s when camptown prostitution became more differentiated from non U S military prostitution The Korean government s policy on prostitution reflected its public s perspectives on prostitution which was in the decades after the war regarded as a necessary means to feed Korea s impoverished population The Chosun Ilbo or Daily News is major newspapers in South Korea 2 200 000 readers Examples given are in Chosun Ilbo 23 August 1960 it mentions In Pup yLng some 150 comfort women dealing with American troops Similar reports using the words comfort women are KyLnghyang Ilbo 11 25 1955 Chosun ilbo 11 08 1957 Chosun ilbo 8 23 1960 Chosun ilbo 12 03 1963 A Comfort Women s demonstration is also reported in 1966 In the mid to late 1960s there were numerous articles in Chosun ilbo reporting crimes committed against camptown prostitutes by American soldiers that continued to used the term comfort women Korea college girls recruited for the Nangnang Club were also viewed as yanggongju or comfort women Seoul Sinmun 26 July 1952 10 October 1953 Post war military brothels were still known as comfort stations and the system based on the Japanese one In 1958 the Chosun ilbo also accounts for the number of women involved as 300 000 The women who served one American husband were called yangbuin Western madam instead of the usual yanggalbo western whore who were generally treated by Korean society as non human beings Generally the Yanggongju have been ignored in official Korean histories as a national shame until recent Song gun Chong in 1967 wrote 3 000 so called comfort women registered with the Health Section of the Military and the Military Police Corps of the U S Army Current Situations of Korean Prostitutes and Countermeasures Pophak nonchong 8 65 87 You can download the main reference at References also arise in Yi Imha 2004a The Korean War and Gende Hankuk Chonjaengkwa Jaendo Seoul Sohaemunjip You must educate your self