“To Whom Shall I Say This? Does Anyone in Heaven or on Earth Know What I Went Through?”: Kim Bong-yi (pseudonym), Choi Seon-soon (real name)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Translator’s Preface VII
3. Acknowledgments XV
4. Preface XIX
5. Contents XXV
6. Introduction: The Stories of the Survivors of the Japanese Military Comfort Girls-Women: The Making of the Memories and Meaning 1
7. Explanatory Notes 13
8. Glossary 15
9. “I Never Dreamt, Not in My Wildest Dreams, That So Many Soldiers Would Come to Me Like That”: Gong Jeom-yeop 17
10. “You Japs, Without Your War, Why Would We Have Gone There?”: Kim Hwa-ja (Pseudonym) 41
11. “It Is Like a Dream That I Survived. But an Utterly Terrifying Nightmare of a Dream”: Chung Seo-un 63
12. “When I Try to Speak of What Is Buried in My Heart, It Feels Like My Heart Is Bursting”: Kang Il-chul 85
13. “How Can I Avenge Myself?”: Seok Soon-hee (pseudonym), Ahn Jeom-soon (real name) 109
14. “That History, At First, I Was Ashamed About It, So I Was Not Able to Talk Very Clearly”: Lee Ok-seon 131
15. “Never, Ever Forget”: Lim Jeong-ja 153
16. “Do Not Ask Me About My Past Life. It Pains My Heart”: Roh Chung-ja 177
17. “You Come and Give Us Compensation and Beg Us for Forgiveness”: Jang Jeom-dol 199
18. “To Whom Shall I Say This? Does Anyone in Heaven or on Earth Know What I Went Through?”: Kim Bong-yi (pseudonym), Choi Seon-soon (real name) 221
19. “There Was Not a Thing I Could Do that I Wanted”: Kim Soon-ak 245
20. “It Passed Along With the Blow of Wind and Waves of Water, Time Has”: Gil Won-ok 267
21. The Story of Failed Interviews: The Silence of Cho Yi Seon, the Secret of Kim Dduk Bbal: Jungae Park 293
22. Some Works on Comfort Girls-Women 303