Bokdong Gim
84 years old
(DOB 1927)
Biography
Yi Okseon was born in Pusan in 1927. She was born to a poor family and was unable to go to school. In 1940 someone offered her "an opportunity to gather money for schooling", and so she began working in a hotel in Usan. In 1942 a Korean and a Japanese came and forcibly abducted her to Yanji, currently in Jilin Province in Northwest China. After this she lived as a "comfort woman" for more than three years. As the result of repeated injections of the anti-syphilis arsphenamine 606 and mercury vapor treatments, she became unable to bear children. While at a "comfort station" near East Yanji Airport she fell in love with a Korean forced conscript in the Japanese military. After the end of the war, she drifted on foot seeking him and eventually settled in Baodaozhen, also in Jilin Province. They married but when war broke out in China, he was enlisted in the military and whisked away. She lived for years as a husbandless newlywed in her in-laws' home, as was the tradtion at the time; but she finally remarried ten years later when he did not return. Until 2000, when she finally returned to Korea and started to live at the Sharing House, she lived in Yanji with her husband's son from a former marriage.
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