In August 1991, Kim Hak-sun of South Korea publicly denounced the Japanese military for forcing her to work as a comfort woman during World War II. Debunking the Japanese government's repeated contention that the comfort women "were prostitutes who took the positions voluntarily," she affirmed that the Japanese had systematically forced Korean women into service against their will.
一九九一年八月，南韓婦女金學順公開揭發二次大戰期間日本軍徵用她充當慰安婦，並非如日本政府一再宣稱的「自願從娼」，而是強迫且有計畫地徵調。