Symposium: Efforts to accurately teach "comfort women" history in the U.S.

Sung Sohn was invited to present at the symposium, After Ramseyer. The symposium focused on educators’ efforts to teach “comfort women” history and issues as well as Korean War history in the U.S. Three South Korean National Assembly members  Jae jung Lee, Jeung Park, Tahney Lee, hosted the symposium. Sung Sohn discussed the history, purpose, and scope of ESJF’s work as well as some distinct differences that exist in the education systems of South Korea and California. Jung Ae Park, a researcher at the North East History Foundation of South Korea, presented a background of the publication of Ramseyer’s article “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War” in the journal International Review of Law and Economics. Ramseyer claimed that women willingly entered into contracts as sex workers at military brothels before and during WWII, rejecting a wide body of research spanning decades, which finds that euphemistically-named “comfort women” were forced to work. Professor Jong-woo Han of Syracuse University shared his work to teach the Korean War accurately in the U.S.

YouTube recording of the symposium (Korean) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLXWFzSYpJg