( Observer Network News)
According to an exclusive report by South Korea's YTN TV station on the 7th, a university professor in Seoul recently made a statement during a lecture that "most of the Japanese military comfort women were voluntary prostitutes", which caused widespread controversy in South Korea. Many Korean netizens angrily said that "it is pathetic for such a person to be a professor" and "he should apologize to the comfort women"; some also pointed out that the pro-Japanese forces in Korea have never been liquidated...
Choi, a professor of philosophy at Kyung Hee University in South Korea An online lecture screen, YTN video report screenshot
reported that the cause of the incident was that YTN TV station recently received a video recording of Choi, a professor of philosophy at Kyung Hee University in South Korea, giving an online lecture on June 2. The video shows that Cui made a lot of remarks beautifying Japanese aggression during the teaching process.
Cui said in class that the main reason why Japanese imperialism invaded the Korean Peninsula at the beginning of the last century was that the then North Korean Emperor Gojong accepted Japanese money bribes in order to preserve his "good days" and thus "sold the country." He also said that during the colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, Japanese imperialism laid the foundation of South Korea's capitalist and built South Korea into a modern country. The
report pointed out that this kind of "colonization promotes modernization" statement is a typical view of Japan's right-wing conservatives.
In another class, Choi claimed that most Korean "comfort women" during the Japanese colonial period were forced to prostitute themselves to make a living. A student revealed that Cui said in class, "Comfort women were prostitutes voluntarily. There is no need for us to sympathize with them."
Reporter interviews classroom students, screenshot of YTN video report
South Korea’s “comfort women”, data map
reported that Cui’s remarks made the students very unhappy, and many people tried to refute his views. He explained to the students that he did not want to support Japan's imperialist aggression per se. He insisted that "compared to the comfort women who were forcibly recruited by the Japanese army, more people voluntarily participated in (prostitution) to solve their livelihoods."
However, according to YTN TV, Cui changed his statement when interviewed by reporters later. He said that he was not a historical expert and would withdraw his remarks if the relevant remarks caused problems and controversy.
Cui’s relevant remarks sparked heated discussions among Korean netizens after being reported and spread. Many netizens said, "I can't believe that such a person is still teaching" and "it's really sad that such a person can still be a professor."
"So what if these people are professors? Professors don't understand history. They are still living in Japanese imperialism (ideas) without knowing it. Apologize to the comfort women immediately."
"Such pro-Japanese elements should be expelled as soon as possible" .
Some netizens said: "Japan's minions have not been properly liquidated. It has been more than half a century, and they are still here."
Some netizens also called for: "The country should filter out this kind of people who cannot face history and export themselves at will." Professors who want to bring chaos to students so that they can never enter the school and academia will never see such reports again. "
It is worth noting that. The "pro-Japanese" forces in South Korea have always been active, and well-known scholars often publish statements that beautify Japan's aggression.
In November last year, Sungkyunkwan University electronic journal published an article entitled "The Japanese Imperialist Colonial Period laid the foundation for Korea's (economic) development." This article was deleted after causing controversy.
In 2020, pro-Japanese scholars and media figures such as former Seoul National University Professor Lee Young-hoon jointly wrote a book "The Fight Against Anti-Japanese Racism", which denied that the "comfort women" victims were forced by the Japanese and believed that "some women They themselves are engaged in the sex trade industry, and the Japanese military's comfort stations are high-yield and high-risk markets." He also said that the reason why those women became "comfort women" was because their families were too poor. The book also criticized the Moon Jae-in government as " anti-Japanese racism."
In 2019, Yoo Seok-chun, who was a professor at Yonsei University at the time, made a remark that "comfort women are a form of prostitution" during a lecture. He was subsequently investigated for allegedly damaging the reputation of "comfort women" victims.
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