Scholars and former officials in both South Korea and Japan have pointed out the absence of evidence for the forced mobilization of comfort women and the lack of objective materials supporting former comfort women’s testimonies. This article examines criticism of the Korean Council (Chongdaehyop), highlighting how its activities shifted toward political anti-Japanese activism.

August 8, 2017.
The following is from Wikipedia regarding the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan.
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Criticism.
An Byeong-jik, Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University, stated that during three years of joint research with the Korean Council on comfort women, there was no evidence of forced mobilization of comfort women, nor were there objective materials supporting the testimonies of those described as former comfort women.
He further stated that the actions of the Council were not aimed at understanding the true nature of the comfort women issue or preventing their present tragic circumstances, but rather at fighting with Japan.
Lee Young-hoon, a professor at Seoul National University, stated that “comfort women were engaged in prostitution” and asked, “Which scholar claims that the Japanese Government-General of Korea forcibly mobilized comfort women.”
As a result, he received demands to resign from his professorship from standing representative Shin Hye-soo.
(Chosun Ilbo, September 3, 2004).
Yasuaki Onuma, former board member of the Asian Women’s Fund and specially appointed professor at Meiji University, criticized the Council’s activities, stating that they distorted the comfort women issue in Korea into a deeply rooted anti-Japanese movement, and that the issue had been replaced by efforts to realize the justice of support organizations rather than addressing the happiness and circumstances of former comfort women.
Lee Yong-soo, a former comfort woman, criticized the Council for acting dogmatically without listening to the opinions of former comfort women, and stated that many testimonies were chaotic and inconsistent with facts.
Political commentator Ji Man-won criticized participants in the Council’s Wednesday demonstrations, claiming that women presented as former members of the women’s volunteer corps were “fake.”
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