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Interview about suspected donation
Jeong-Yeon Lee, president of the Ina-Young Jeong Memorable Regiment (second from right), held a press conference at the “Human Rights Foundation” in Mapo-gu, Seoul on the 11th, revealing the position related to the controversy over donations. Staff reporter Sanghoon Lee [email protected]
Group personality
Lee Yong-soo’s grandmother said, “I have not taken care of the victim’s livelihood.”
Accounting
“I only care about the amount of money and I apologize for the items I spend” … “No problem” in the controversy over eligibility for the “Kim Bok-dong Scholarship”
Korea-Japan Agreement
“I never told the Foreign Office … the grandmothers were left to decide whether to receive the funds.”
The Memory of Justice Regiment’s “controversy over the fraudulent use of donations” began when the Japanese Army’s “Comfort Women” victims’ support group collides with two different views of Justice. Lee Yong-soo, who first raised this issue, said, “We don’t use the money raised by the protests for the grandmothers.” On the other hand, Jung Yeon-yeon held a press conference at the “Human Rights Foundation” in Mapo-gu, Seoul on the 11th and explained: “Jeong Eui-yeon is not a humanitarian organization that only aims to stabilize the victims’ lives. “
From the days of the Korean Mental Problems Countermeasures Council (Jung Dae-hyup) in the early 1990s, Jung-Yeon Jung played a major role in publicizing the issue of Japanese comfort women in the international community as a topic of sexual violence in times of war. Some are concerned that the value of Jeong-Yeon Yeon’s existence should not be entirely denied just because there is little money directly provided to the victim. Some critics pointed out that this controversy should be used as an opportunity to look back if there is anything that violates the principle of victimhood.
■ Assistance to victims
On the same day, Jeong Eui-yeon held a press conference at the “Human Rights Foundation” in Mapo-gu, Seoul, and revealed the details of her recent three-year donations, addressing the allegations of fraud. Eui-Yeon Jeong said that, from 2017 to 2019, an average of 41% of total donations of 2.1965 million won (9.144.4 million won) was used for the victim support project. The general donation excludes the destination donation created by designating the place of use, such as demand demonstrations and the operation of the ‘My Peace House’ shelter.
Of these, the amount of money “directly supported” by the victims was approximately 800 million won. In 2017, the Japanese government carried out the “One Million Citizen Fundraiser” for grandmothers who rejected the one billion yen donated by the Foundation’s Reconciliation and Healing Fund, and paid the “Prize for Human Rights of the Women “of 8 billion won to each of the 8 grandmothers. Excluding this, the money used by Jung Yeon Yeon to drop victims falls to 23 million to 24 million won annually.
The problem is, how far do you look at the scope of ‘victim assistance’? Lee Yong-soo and grandmother Choi Yong-sang, representatives of the Gaza Peace Human Rights Party, questioned that Jeong Yeon-yeon did not pay this money directly to the party’s grandmother. The criticism is that they do not take care of the lives of the grandmothers who have been victims, and that they are only using the donation to “call the body” of the organization, such as building a museum or conducting research and writing.
On the other hand, Jeong Yeon-yeon said, “It is not just the direct support of the donations that supports the victims.” In the early 1990s, grandmothers were experiencing financial difficulties, so they temporarily supported their living expenses, but after passing the relevant laws in 1993, the economic situation of grandmothers has stabilized and, since then, support Emotional, like medical care, regular visits and outings, has stabilized. He has been helping victims in a way that helps.
Eui-Yeon Jeong also emphasized that the Japanese women’s issue of military comfort was made known to the international community, and various efforts were made to regain the human rights and honor of the victims.
President Lee Na-young said, “If Jeong Eui-yeon was a group dedicated to the stability of comfort women, it had to be dissolved when the Victim Support Act was created in the early 1990s. thus, the history textbook would not include a single line of sexual slavery, and the United Nations would not define itself as a matter of sexual slavery. “The National Solidarity of Women also issued a statement of support on this day and said: “Why should Jeong-Yeon be the guy who pays grandmothers money to avoid? That’s what the government of the Republic of Korea and the host country, Japan, have to do.”
■ Opaque accounting
Immediately after suspecting that the donation was used in an opaque way, Eui-Yeon Jeong released public officials from the National Tax Service and said, “Every year we conduct transparent internal audits and receive tax confirmation from external experts.” However, the situation where accounting was generally poor was confirmed.
According to Eui-Yeon Jung and her predecessor, the Counsel for Countermeasures Against Mental Problems, published on the website of the National Tax Service website, the organization repeatedly showed the number of expense recipients at 99, 999 and 999. In some cases , the total amount of donations was used for an integrated element, regardless of the expenditure elements. In 2018, when the total number of benefits was reported to be 9999, it was announced that the 400 million won was used for 10 items, including demand demonstrations.
Secretary General Han Kyung-hee said, “We apologize for the data processing (accounting). There were internal difficulties as we progressed through our insufficient workforce. “I think it’s about the amount of money and the rest,” he apologized.
It was also controversial that the beneficiaries of the “Kim Bok-Dong Scholarship”, created by the late grandmother Kim Bok-Dong Joui-Geum, were limited to child activists from social groups. In response, Jeong Yeon-yeon said, “Gim Bok-dong has been working with the Ssangyong Motor dismissal worker, fighting Sadd and the Japanese-Japanese workers. Activists, such as the women’s movements, which paid 2 million won to long-time dedicated children, said there was no problem with the scholarship payment process.
■ Controversy over the communication process between Korea and Japan
After the interview with grandmother Lee Yong-soo, there is also a suspicion that the former US president. USA Jeong-Yeon Jeong and Mi-hyang Yoon, as well as citizens of the Citizens’ Party, have already recognized the consensus process on the issue of comfort women from the Korean and Japanese government.
There have been reports from the Foreign Ministry that the Japanese government has appeared in the billions of yen in the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation fund, or that it has ignored the victim’s grandmother’s intention to receive funds from the Japanese government. However, it is noted that the primary responsibility for this problem lies with the Park Geun-hye government and diplomatic authorities who have pushed for a “secret room” without revealing the consensus process and final conclusions to the media and the public. usually. This is because President-elect Yun did not have the authority to “choose” the agreement between the Korean and Japanese governments in advance and did not appear to have received a full explanation from the Blue House and the Foreign Ministry.
In the interview, Jung Yeon-yeon said: “The Japanese government has discussed the content of some agreements, such as the payment of one billion yen through media reports from now on.” Lee Sang-hee, Chief Justice Yeon-hee Lee said, “It was the grandmother who made the decision to receive the Healing and Reconciliation Foundation Fund. I visited the grandmothers individually and consulted the doctor. However, it is noted that it is difficult to avoid criticism about whether there was enough communication to represent the understanding of all the victims.
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