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Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women In the film, Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women  directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, it’s about the documentary that dramatizes pain/experiences different narratives merged together. It’s also about comfort women and the horrors of being coerced, lured, and kidnapped. The focus was on the lives of the women before and after their wartime. Comfort women are women and girls who were forced into prostitution by the Japanese government. The women suffered physical, mental, and sexual abuse. Women don't just want money, but they want the Japanese government to formally apologize and be held accountable for their actions.Japanese took Korean women because Korea was powerless. Korean women suffered the greatest. Lost hearing, broken bones, Japan continues to not tell the truth about comfort women, they were economically dependent & socially destroyed. Women were coerced by the Japanese to serve the imperial troops in military brothels. One former comfort woman describes how she and others were forced to bayonet Chinese civilians. Another remembers eating human flesh. In the film, the women were duped into leaving home, how they were introduced to their new lives of servitude, lives which would gradually spiral downwards as venereal disease and more took its toll until death arrived. The Korean government and society’s treatment and social condemnation of comfort women undermines the argument that is used in the law sue pursued against the Japanese government. The Korean government is making, the contradictory, cultural and political representation of comfort women shows the double victimization that comfort women are subjected to. Right after the colonization, they were labeled as: damaged, dirty, and tainted women in Korean society. They were forced to hide their experiences and the violence and social

injustice was silenced. Many of the records documenting military relations with the comfort women were destroyed. Survivors were infertile due to the sexual abuse and rapid injection. Military prostitution was tolerated for the sake of protecting “good” Korean women. This was socially acceptable. Overall, it was wonderfully told. The true stories hidden from history until this film was made. Atrocities of war and crimes unpunished as of yet. Even though there were subtitles, I had an issue following along. I never knew the meaning of comfort women and their experience until this film. It is a valuable tool for all of us teaching Korean Studies. The testimonies themselves are always compelling. The film broadened my knowledge on the Koren life and history of women....