![]() By highlighting the militarization of sexual relations in South Korea, the chapter demonstrates how the violent and coerced militarization of women’s sexuality can lead to the formation of new political movements. ![]() It suggests that some of the same women who were chŏngsindae (comfort women) for the Japanese imperial system later became sex workers for the U.S. The chapter considers the many connections that link the formation of these movements, which include Japan’s colonial occupation of Korea and the United States’s military occupation of South Korea. It analyzes the historical context and politics of two movements against militarized sexual labor, namely, the chŏngsindae movement and the kijich’on movement the former is also known as the comfort women movement and latter is concerned with the conditions of sex workers in U.S. military in regulating the sexual exploitation of specific classes and groups of South Korean women. ![]() ![]() This chapter examines the overlapping conditions and complicities among the Korean government, the Japanese “comfort women” system, and the U.S. ![]()
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