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Gil Won-ok (born 1928), also known as Grandma Gil, is an activist and former Korean comfort woman who has dedicated her life to demanding redress and an official apology from Japan for the military sexual violence that affected over 200,000 women during World War II.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 19 relations: Comfort women, Geneva, Harbin, Heian'nan-dō, Hysterectomy, Imperial Japanese Army, Kim Bok-dong, Korea under Japanese rule, Manchuria, Pyongyang, Second Congo War, Syphilis, The Korea Herald, The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, United Nations, Vietnam War, War crime, Wednesday demonstration, World War II.

  2. Comfort women
  3. South Korean activists

Comfort women

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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Harbin

Harbin is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China.

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Heian'nan-dō

, alternatively Heian'nan Province or South Heian Province, was a province of Korea under Japanese rule.

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Hysterectomy

Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus and cervix.

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Imperial Japanese Army

The (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan.

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Kim Bok-dong

Kim Bok-dong (19 April 1926 – 28 January 2019) was a human rights activist that campaigned against sexual slavery and war rape. Gil Won-ok and Kim Bok-dong are comfort women and South Korean activists.

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Korea under Japanese rule

From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan under the name Chōsen (Hanja: 朝鮮, Korean: 조선), the Japanese reading of Joseon.

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Manchuria

Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria.

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Pyongyang

Pyongyang (Hancha: 平壤, Korean: 평양) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution".

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Second Congo War

The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War, the Great War of Africa, or the Great African War, began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 2 August 1998, little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues.

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Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.

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The Korea Herald

The Korea Herald (코리아헤럴드) is a leading English-language daily newspaper founded in August 1953 and published in Seoul, South Korea.

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The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan

The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (commonly known as The Korean Council) is a Korean non-governmental organization advocating the rights of the surviving comfort women and lobbying the Japanese government to take actions of a full apology and compensation.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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Wednesday demonstration

Wednesday demonstration (translit), officially named Wednesday Demonstration demanding Japan to redress the Comfort Women problems (일본군 위안부 문제 해결을 위한 정기 수요시위), is a weekly protest in South Korea which aims at obtaining justice from the Japanese government regarding the large scale sexual slavery system established under Imperial Japan rule during World War II (its victims are commonly known under the euphemism "comfort women"). Gil Won-ok and Wednesday demonstration are comfort women.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Comfort women

South Korean activists

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Won-ok

Also known as Grandma Gil.