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Summary
More than 100 South Korean women have filed a lawsuit against the US military authority for forced prostitution during its military presence in their country. The women also hold the South Korean government liable for the act.
In a landmark lawsuit, more than a hundred South Korean women accused the US military authority of forced prostitution during the military presence in their country. The alleged exploitation occurred from 1950 to the 1980s.
According to historians and women’s rights advocates, thousands of South Korean women were forced into prostitution in state-approved brothels catering to US military personnel between the 1950s and 1980s. This system was partly intended to boost morale among US troops stationed in South Korea to counter the North Korean threat.
The women were brought to Monkey House, a clinic where they were tested for SDI. The building also serves as a graveyard where some of the women died. The lawsuit holds the South Korean government and the US military authority liable for these unlawful acts.
One of the women who is now in her 60s narrated how she was tricked into prostitution at the age of 17 and forced to stay because of her debts. She was beaten for not smiling and injected with unnamed drugs, which made her unable to work.
Presently, the women are demanding an official apology from the US military authority and financial compensation for the unjust act done against them.
