Comfort women
When the diary was first published, many South Korean media outlets reported that the diary was definitive evidence that Korean comfort women were forcibly recruited by the Japanese military, but Choi Kilsong dismissed the notion that the diary supports this. An Byeong-jik concurs that the diary contains no information concerning forcible recruitment of comfort women, stating that, "Comfort women were recruited by business operators in Korea, and there was no need for the military to abduct them." However, the diary entries of the year 1942, which might have dealt in more detail with how the comfort women at Mr. Park's brothel were recruited, are missing from the diary.