Musical about 'comfort women' draws attention to horrific WWII practice.
Theater director Dimo Kim learned about “comfort women,” the mostly Korean women who were forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, when he was a high school student in South Korea. A few years later, when he shared a script he wrote about the women with his classmates at the City College of New York, he was slightly shocked.
During World War II, an estimated 200,000 women from countries including Korea, the Philippines, China and Indonesia were forced into sexual slavery and “served” five to 60 soldiers a day,Kim was inspired to write about the women in 2012 after the re-election of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and hearing claims from Japanese groups that comfort women were professional prostitutes.
“It is a pretty heavy subject, but through music and performance and acting and dance, I think we can more easily learn the history,” Phyllis Kim said. “I thought it was a great way to spread the truth of the history.” “If we're too heavy on the sexual assault sequence or the torture sequence or anything violent, we miss the focus of the show, which is the girls,” Kim said. “And I don’t want the audience to think Japan is the devil and Korea is the victim. I’m trying to show more that this is a human rights issue.”
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