The Hankyoreh
Three days after Uemura's article, Kim Hak-sun held her press conference August 14, 1991 attended by "The Hokkaido Shimbun" and Korean media where she revealed she attended a kisaeng school for three years, starting at the age of 14. Subsequently on August 15, the Korean newspaper "The Hankyoreh" wrote a piece revealing that Kim "was sold to a kisaeng school ("gwonbeon"; ) in Pyongyang at the age of 14 by her mother, and taken away (some years later) by her "gwonbeon" foster-father.