Kangil Chul
83 years old
(DOB 1928)
• Resident at the House of Sharing
Biography
Kang Il-Chul was born in 1928 in Sangju, in Gyeongsang Province in Southeastern Korea. In 1943, when she was sixteen, a military officer came to her house and abducted her, saying that she was being conscripted for the National Guard. She was taken to Manchuria, and after stopping in Shenyang, was made a "comfort woman" of the Japanese military at Changchun "comfort station" and later at one in Mudanjang. At the time that the war ended she was stricken by severe typhoid fever, and thinking that she would die, military personal transferred her outside of the military base to be cremated alive with corpses; but she was subsequently rescued by Korean independence fighters. After the war, she remained in China. After the Korean War she served as a military nurse for Korean communist troops and upon her discharge she moved to Jilin City, also in Northwestern China, and served as a nurse there. She married a Chinese man in Jilin, and remained there. She finally returned to Korea in 2000 and is currently living in the House of Sharing.
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