Korean "Comfort Women"Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died, unable to survive the ordeal. Those survivors who came back home kept silent about their brutal experiences for about fifty years. In the late 1980s, the womens movement in South Korea helped start the