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| birth_date = 1924 | death_date = December, 1997 | birth_place = Jilin, China | birth_name = | othername = | occupation = | yearsactive = | website = | spouse = }} Kim Hak-sun was a Korean former comfort woman. As the first to share her story, she helped to bring to the public's attention the issue of Japanese sex slavery during the Pacific War when she went public with her story in August, 1991. At a press conference, she described her suffering as a comfort woman.〔 She said that seeing the Japanese imperial flag "still makes me shudder. Until now, I did not have the courage to speak, even though there are so many thing I want to say." 〔http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/14/2011121401645.html Chosun Ilbo (English Edition). Retrieved March 14, 2012.〕 In December, 1991, she filed a class-action lawsuit against the Japanese government.〔http://www.awf.or.jp/e2/survey.html Digital Museum, retrieved March 13, 2012.〕〔Japan's National/Asian Women's Fund for "Comfort Women" C. Sarah Soh. Pacific Affairs Vol. 76, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 209-233 Published by: Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia〕 At that time, she was the first of what would become dozens of women from Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Netherlands who came forward to tell their stories of being forced to be sex slaves of Japanese military. She was the lead plaintiff and initially the only one to use her real name in connection with the case.〔 She was inspired to finally take her story public after 40 years of silence, by the growth of the women's rights movement in South Korea.〔http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/11358 Reihana Mohideen. ''Green Left'', July 31, 1996. Retrieved March 3, 2012〕 Kim died in 1997, with the court case still ongoing. ==Background== Kim Hak-sun was sold to a family that trained kisaeng in Pyongyang at the age of 15, by her mother who could not afford to raise her. She was given the new name Kumhwa and trained there as a kisaeng for two years.〔 In 1941, when she was 17, the kisaeng house owner took her and a friend to China since they were unable to find business in Korea.〔While there, she and her friend were forcefully taken by Japanese soldiers to an abandoned home where they were raped. She testified: However, instead of paying them, the Japanese military imprisoned them as sex slaves in a "comfort station" that was a quasi-brothel. She and her friend as well as two others were forced to service a small group of Japanese service men, as well as some other men the Japanese soldiers brought in. She spent four months at two different "comfort stations" in China before meeting a middle-aged Korean man who helped her to escape. He later married her and they had two children, a boy and a girl. By the time Kim came forward with her story, however, her husband and children had died.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=August 15, 1991 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kim Hak-sun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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