One Left

by Kim Soom

Book Overview

A powerful tale of trauma and endurance that transformed a nation's understanding of Korean comfort women

During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in "comfort stations" across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295747668
• ISBN13: 9780295747668
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"