This passage examines Independence Hall in Cheonan, managed by the South Korean government, and argues that through the extensive use of dioramas, wax figures, and three-dimensional video, it exaggerates or fabricates scenes related to the comfort women issue and torture in order to implant fear of Japan and hatred toward Japan in children.
It points out that depictions of forced abduction, “sexual slavery,” and even the murder of comfort women to destroy evidence are exhibited without historical foundation, and further denounces the grave distortion of history by which the torture method known as churi, practiced in the Yi Dynasty period, is also being taught as a Japanese atrocity under colonial rule.

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Yet here they teach that the Japanese did this to Korean independence activists, and any child who sees it will tremble in fear and, at the same time, come to harbor intense hatred toward Japan.

2. The reality of anti-Japan facilities in South Korea.
   2-1. Independence Hall.
   In Cheonan, about 100 kilometers south of Seoul, there is an “Independence Hall” administered by the South Korean government.
   South Korean elementary and junior high school students are made to study history there.
   In the exhibition halls, dioramas and wax figures are used extensively, appealing to sight and sound while implanting “fear” and “hatred” of Japan in the viewer.
   In the section related to the comfort women, scenes are recreated in diorama form showing women being forcibly dragged and loaded onto trucks, and Japanese soldiers lining up and waiting their turn at comfort stations.
   Furthermore, in a three-dimensional video, a scene is shown in which Japanese soldiers shoot dead Korean comfort-women sisters while shouting, “Die gladly for Japan,” in order to destroy evidence of the abuse of comfort women.
   After the killing, a female narrator appears, declares that “the forced abduction of comfort women was a brutal act carried out systematically by the Japanese government,” and the screen fades to black.
   However, the claim that comfort women were abducted, loaded onto trucks, and turned into “sex slaves” was a fabrication by a Japanese man named Seiji Yoshida, and is not a fact.
   Even Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, which reported Yoshida Seiji’s lies as fact, admitted on August 5, 2014 that it had published false reports and apologized.
   Yet here, they are still teaching it to children as if it were fact.
   The claim that Japan’s military and authorities systematically carried out forced abductions is also entirely contrary to historical fact.
   The Japanese government has also formally denied forced abduction, stating that “there is not a single piece of evidence that the military or the authorities carried out forced abductions,” and at the UN Human Rights Council it has explicitly stated that the claim that women were turned into sex slaves through forced abduction is not based on facts.
   Nevertheless, here, without any clear evidence, they twist the facts and teach children that this was “a brutal act systematically carried out by the Japanese government,” and even recreate in video scenes of comfort women being massacred in order to destroy evidence and evade the responsibility of the Japanese government, thereby imprinting the cruelty of the Japanese on the minds of South Korean children.
   There is also a section recreating torture by Japanese authorities, where scenes of independence activists being tortured are reproduced with “moving wax figures,” and in one of them a stick is thrust between the legs of a bound woman, and along with the sound of bones being crushed, the woman’s screams can be heard.
   This was a torture method called churi that was practiced in the Yi Dynasty period, and during Japanese rule the Government-General of Korea prohibited such cruel torture.
   Yet here they teach that the Japanese did this to Korean independence activists, and any child who sees it will tremble in fear and, at the same time, come to harbor intense hatred toward Japan.
   To be continued.