Lee Wooyoun

Lee Wooyoun is an author and scholar with a Ph.D in economics, specializing in Korean economic history.He is currently a research fellow at the Naksungdae Institute of Economic Research in South Korea. His books include the best-seller in South Korea and Japan, Anti-Japan Tribalism (co-author, 2019) and Cry Out the Truth in the Middle of Seoul (2020), among others.

No Debate? The Diplomat’s Cancellation of My Comfort Women Article

Lee Wooyoun December 4, 2021

The comfort women issue will not be resolved by running away from the facts...

[Bookmark] The Substance of Contracts: Why Ramseyer is Correct About Korean Sex Workers

Lee Wooyoun April 4, 2021

Parents’ agreement to what their daughters were being recruited for was indisputably the “contracts.”...

[Bookmark] Controversy Over Harvard Article Can’t Erase the Facts of Comfort Women Contracts

Lee Wooyoun April 3, 2021

Here is a case study that explores how contract negotiations were carried out and...

[Bookmark] Harvard Professor’s Paper on Comfort Women Will Become Academia’s Pandora’s Box

Lee Wooyoun March 7, 2021

Payment terms were better for wartime comfort women than for prewar prostitutes … We...

[Bookmark] Harvard Thesis on Comfort Women Foretells the Decline of ‘Anti-Japan Tribalism’

Lee Wooyoun March 6, 2021

Forced recruitment? Sexual slavery? The relationship between comfort women and comfort station owners in...

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