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Rebuttal to #CarterEckert #AndrewGordon statement on #MarkRamseyer 's #Comfortwomen article.
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1️⃣Since legally speaking Koreans were treated equally as Japanese, one may describe Korean Comfort women by citing the contracts with Japanese Comfort women'sign.

Some Japanese Comfort women served higher class soldiers compared to Korean Comfort women, but that is about their skills and their legal status was the same.

Also note that Japanese name sign doesn't necessarily mean Japanese signed it, since some Koreans had Japanese names.

2️⃣The statement pointed out one of sources in his paper was about not Comfortwomen 慰安婦 but 酌婦 Shakufu.
But in a diary of Comfort woman station employee below, he made no difference in using these names to describe its entity.
mainichi.jp/articles/20200…

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During Japanese rule in Korea, Koreans were treated equally as Japanese.

Korean politicians in Japan/Korea, Korean judges, mayers, and police officers.

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Ads by broker for #Comfortwomen on newspaper in Korea were written with BOTH Korean and Japanese.(a mixture of Chinese letters with 🇰🇷/🇯🇵).

Brokers particularly didn't make any difference. One can safely assume broker contracts for Japanese women were also applied to Korean.

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1️⃣Missing the contracts with Korean, and only the template for Japanese was provided.

Never heard Assimilation?
I already answered that below.

2⃣R's paper missing deception of Mun Ok-ju by broker

But critics also failed to mention she was so poor not eating 2days, she decided to be a Kisaeng, cuz she knew she would make money by having SEX with men. She knew she wouldn't have a normal marriage.
books.google.co.jp/books?id=PzXfF…

3⃣By tip?

One cannot tell whether Mun Ok-ju made fortune exclusively from the tip or in addition to her earnings as comfort women. Being comfort women might've helped her to gather people giving a tip for dancing. In that case tip is part of earnings of being comfort women.

4⃣Unable to receive all money she earned

Being unable to get her earnings at the end of war is irrelevant to talk about treatment of CW since that happened to anybody with any job losing the value of Japanese military vouchers, government bonds and so on.

5⃣Missing the deception of Osaki by owner

Indeed, nobody told her specificly, but she said "I somehow noticed what 娼売 prostitution is & wondered if we're gonna have to do" by seeing many prostitutes. The book says, not like Osaki didn't know at all but somehow acknowledged it.

6⃣Unable to disappear??

Clearly critics misinterpreted his word.
He meant to say, women got on boat, the point is important, they WERE ABLE TO DISAPPEAR from brothel, it was not like confined physically or being monitored constantly at all.
Img1 his paper
Img2 book
Img3 critics

What critics say is all about "switching" brothel, NOT disappearance as prof. R mentioned. Unconsent switching is not fair to former owner who invested these women for training skills, so new owner negotiated, paid some to him, and settled down by keeping one of them. Sounds fair