It is torture called "churi," which was practiced during the Joseon period, and the Japanese Governor-General of Korea prohibited such brutal torture during the Japanese occupation.
March 01, 2019
2・The Reality of Anti-Japanese Institutions in Korea
2-1・Independence Memorial Hall
In Cheonan, about 100 kilometers south of Seoul, there is the Independence Hall of Remembrance, which the Korean government administers.
Korea's elementary and junior high school students are forced to study history here.
In the exhibition rooms, dioramas and wax figures are used to instill "fear" and "hatred" toward Japan in the viewer, appealing to the visual and auditory senses.
In the comfort women-related corner, dioramas reproduce scenes of women being forcibly pulled onto trucks and Japanese soldiers waiting in line at comfort stations for their turn.
In addition, a three-dimensional video shows Japanese soldiers shooting Korean comfort women sisters to death, shouting "Die gladly for Japan," to destroy evidence of comfort women abuse.
After the killings, a female narrator appears, and the video goes dark, deciding that "The forced recruitment of comfort women is a brutal act systematically perpetrated by the Japanese government.
However, the story that the comfort women were abducted, loaded onto trucks, and made into "sex slaves" is a creation of a Japanese man named Seiji Yoshida and is not true.
The Asahi Shimbun, the Japanese newspaper that reported Yoshida's lies as fact, acknowledged the "false report" and apologized on August 05, 2014.
Yet here, Korea is still teaching it as a fact to their children.
It is entirely against the historical fact that the Japanese military and authorities systematically forcibly recruited them.
The Japanese government has officially denied that the military and government officials systematically forced children into slavery, saying that there is no evidence whatsoever that they did so, and has clearly stated at the United Nations Human Rights Council; It is not based on the fact that it was made into a sex slave by coercive recruitment."
However, here, without any clear evidence, they twist the facts and teach children that "the Japanese government systematically committed the atrocities."
Furthermore, Korea abused Japan, even reproducing scenes of the massacre of comfort women; they say it was in an attempt to destroy evidence that Japan avoided the Japanese government's responsibility, imprinting Japanese atrocities on the minds of Korean children.
There is also a section that reproduces torture by the Japanese authorities, where the scene of independence activists being tortured is reproduced with "moving wax figures," one of which is a woman with her hands tied and a stick on her leg. A woman's scream and the sound of bones breaking are heard.
It is torture called "churi," which was practiced during Joseon, and the Korean Governor-General prohibited such cruel torture during the Japanese occupation period.
The children who see this are horrified and tremble with fear, and develop an intense hatred of Japan.
To be continued.
