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Korean Comfort Women
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Published: 1.30.2018
Level 5   |   Time: 3:05
Accent: Australian, British
BBC Global News Podcast (1.29.2019)

A prominent former Korean comfort woman, Kim Bok Dong, has died recently, highlighting unresolved issues about past atrocities committed by the Japanese military.

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  1. READ the VOCABULARY

    It is important to read the vocabulary before you watch the video. This will improve your ability to understand the video. It will also help you understand how the new vocabulary is used naturally.

  2. WATCH the VIDEO

    The first time you watch the video, just try to understand the overall situation.

  3. ANSWER the QUESTIONS

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  4. WATCH and READ the SCRIPT

    Watch the video again while you read the script. Reading and listening at the same time will help you hear each individual word and improve your listening accuracy.

  5. DO the ACTIVITIES

    There are several different activities that focus on test preparation, vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure.

  1. LEA el VOCABULARIO

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  4. MIRAR Y LEER

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  5. HACER LAS ACTIVIDADES

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  1. 어휘 읽기

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  5. 액티비티 하기

    듣기 정확도, 발음, 어휘, 문법 및 문장 구조에 초점을 맞춘 다양한 액티비티가 있습니다.

triangle Vocabulary 어휘 Vocabulario

  • ☐ ☐ ☐ abduct [v] - steal someone, kidnap
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a brothel [n] - a house where men can visit prostitutes
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a comfort woman [n] - a woman or girl who was forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers between 1937 and 1945
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ critical [adj] - express negative comments
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ compensate [v] - give money for some loss or injury
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ adequately [adv] - enough
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ decades [n] - 10s of years, many years
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ campaigning [n] - work in an organized way toward a particular goal
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ enslave [v] - make into a slave
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ come out [phv] - reveal one's identity publicly
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ an embassy [n] - a government office in a foreign country
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ detain [v] - keep or put in jail
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ in cahoots [exp] - work together
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a village chief [n] - the leader of a village
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ conclude [v] - decide
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a minister [n] - a government official
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a gag clause [n] - a formal agreement not to talk about something
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ fora [n] - many forums
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a forum [n] - a place or situation where ideas are expressed publicly
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ incidents [n] - an event or happening
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ on the basis of [exp] - based on
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a battering ram [n] - a tool to make something happen with force
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a bludgeon [n] - a tool to make something happen with force
  • ☐ ☐ ☐ a dead duck [exp] - something that has no chance of success

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression


triangle Questions 문제 Preguntas [ ? ]

Questions

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질문

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  1. Who abducted Kim Bok Dong from her home?
    Korean soldiers
    Japanese soldiers
    Korean government officials
    Japanese government officials

  2. In what year was she abducted?
    1904
    1914
    1940
    1944

  3. How old was she when she was abducted?
    4
    14
    40
    44

  4. What did she become well-known for later in life?
    She recently organized the first protest against Japan.
    She was one of the first comfort women to escape.
    She was one of the first comfort women to speak out publicly.

  5. Why was she critical of the Japanese government?
    Japan denied abducting her.
    Japan never offered a sincere apology.
    Japan never compensated comfort women adequately for their suffering.

  6. How old was she when she died?
    19
    90
    93
    99

  7. Who helped the Japanese military official abduct Kim Bok Dong when she was a child?
    The Korean president
    The Korean military
    Her village chief

  8. Who signed the agreement for $9 million in compensation for comfort women?
    Kim Bok Dong
    Park Geun Hye
    Moon Jae-in
    Dr. Caroline Norma

  9. Who recently rejected this agreement?
    Kim Bok Dong
    Park Geun Hye
    Moon Jae-in
    Dr. Caroline Norma

  10. Who negotiated and made the agreement?
    Government officials from Korea
    Government officials from Japan
    Surviving comfort women
    Organizations representing comfort women

  11. Who did not participate in the negotiation of the agreement?
    Government officials from Korea
    Government officials from Japan
    Surviving comfort women
    Organizations representing comfort women

  12. What were the main problems with the agreement?
    It was unclear.
    It included a gag clause.
    It didn't provide enough money.
    It was signed without input from the women.

  13. After the agreement was signed, what did the Japanese government complain about?
    The agreement provided too much money.
    There were no surviving comfort women.
    Korean officials mentioned comfort women in public.

  14. Who never (was given the chance to) accept or reject the agreement?
    Comfort women
    Park Geun Hye
    Moon Jae-in


triangle Summary 요약 Resumen

Directions: Write sentences about the video clip using the words given. You can change the word form or add words, but you cannot change the word order.

Instrucciones: Escriba oraciones sobre el videoclip usando las palabras dadas. Puede cambiar la forma de la palabra o agregar palabras, pero no puede cambiar el orden de las palabras.

지시 : 주어진 단어를 사용하여 비디오 클립에 대한 문장을 씁니다. 어형을 변경하거나 단어를 추가할 수 있지만 어순은 변경할 수 없습니다.


Sentence 1

Kim Bok Dong / former / comfort / woman / die / recently / age / 93 / after / year / campaign / Japan / government


Kim Bok Dong, a former comfort woman, died recently at the age of 93 after years of campaigning against the Japanese government.



Sentence 2

Kim Bok Dong / abduct / Japan / soldier / when / she / 14 / year / old / and / sell / slavery


Kim Bok Dong was abducted by Japanese soldiers when she was 14 years old and sold into slavery.



Sentence 3

1992 / she / criticize / Japan / refuse / apologize / sincere / former / sex / slave


In 1992, she criticized Japan for refusing to apologize sincerely to former sex slaves.



Sentence 4

after / come / out / survivor / she / participate / protest / Japan / embassy / Seoul / every / week


After coming out as a survivor, she participated in (the) protests at the Japanese embassy in Seoul every week.



Sentence 5

agreement / make / previous / Korean / president / nine / million / dollar / reject / by / current / Korean / president / Moon Jae-in


An agreement (that was) made by the previous Korean president for nine million dollars was rejected by the current Korean president, Moon Jae-in.



Sentence 6

Japan / South Korea / government / make / agreement / without / consult / survivor


The Japanese and (the) South Korean governments made the agreement without consulting (the) survivors.



Sentence 7

agreement / include / gag / clause / prohibit / official / mention / topic / public


The agreement included a gag clause [prohibiting/which prohibited] officials from mentioning the topic in public.



Sentence 8

Japan / government / condemn / Korea / government / after / they / bring / topic / couple / time / public / forum


The Japanese government condemned the Korean government after they brought up the topic a couple of times in public [fora/forums].



Sentence 9

because / agreement / never / accept / by / survivor / it / dead / duck / before / it / even / start


Because the agreement was never accepted by (the) survivors, it was a dead duck before it even started.



triangle Discussion 논의 Discusión

  1. In your opinion, why did the Korean (Park Geun Hye) government sign the treaty with Japan?
  2. Why was the agreement problematic?
  3. In your opinion, what should be included in the agreement?
  4. Is it fair for the Japanese government to insist on a "gag clause" as part of their agreement for compensation? Why?
  5. Do you feel that what happened to these women can happen (or is happening) in today's world? Why or why not?
  6. In your opinion, why is the Japanese government so reluctant to take responsibility for this part of their history?

triangle Script 대본 Texto

Kim Bok Dong was abducted from her home in Korea by Japanese soldiers in 1940 when she was 14. She was sent to military brothels in Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. And in 1992, she became only the second so-called comfort woman to speak out about her horrific wartime experiences. And she was very critical of what she said was Japan's refusal to apologise sincerely to former sex slaves or to compensate them adequately for their suffering. Kim Bok Dong died yesterday at the age of 93 after decades of campaigning.

To find out more about her, Dan Damon spoke to Dr. Caroline Norma, an academic at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia who's written a book on the tens of thousands of former comfort women who were enslaved by the Japanese military.

Kim Bok Dong was and is a living hero. She came out registered as a survivor in South Korea very early on in 1992. And ever since she registered in January, every week she participated in, for example, the protest that's held outside of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. She did that after having experienced as a child, at age 14, being detained and taken away by a contracted Japanese civilian of the military in cahoots with her local village chief, which is not an unusual story.

She was born in 1925 and then was trafficked from the South Korean port of Busan across to Shimonoseki in Japan and in through Taiwan into a brothel in Guangdong in southern China.

There was an agreement between the last president in South Korea, Park Geun Hye, and the Japanese government to produce compensation of nine million dollars. But the administration now of Moon Jae-in, the new president, has rejected that. Why?

It was an agreement concluded between high level government officials, the foreign ministers of both Japan and South Korea, without consulting survivors or even the representative organizations of survivors.

And the primary problem with it was that it came with a gag clause for Korean government and public officials, diplomatic officials, mentioning the topic of the military sexual slavery during the China and Pacific Wars in public fora.

So very quickly after the deal was signed between the two governments, a couple of incidents occurred over the early months of 2016 where the issue was raised in various fora by South Korean officials. And that brought condemnation from the Japanese side over and over on the basis of, "We have signed this deal with you and giving you money, and therefore you are now gagged. Why you going back on the agreement?" So the agreement from its very signing was used as a battering ram and a bludgeon against South Koreans and was never accepted by survivors or their organizations. It was sort of a dead duck before it even started.