[전문]Yongsu Lee Grandmother “The error that appeared in the 30-year fight for justice was corrected”

Grandmother Lee Yong-soo attends the 1379 Regular Demonstration Demonstration to solve the problem of Japanese military sexual slavery held in front of the former Japanese Embassy in Jongno-gu, Seoul, in March last year, and looks at the statue of the girl. Newsis.

Japanese women’s grandmother “comfort women,” Grandmother Lee Yong-soo (92) said of the recent controversy over the undeclared donation of the Justice and Memory Association donation (Juie Yeon-Yeon, the former advice about mental problems). Since 1992, Eui-Yeon Jung has organized a regular demand demonstration (demand gathering) to solve the problem of the Japanese military slavery system.

On the 13th, the grandmother submitted an article titled “Gateway to Related Controversy After the May 7 Press Conference.” It’s only been six days since Lee held a press conference on the 7th and insisted that Jung Yeon-yeon’s donation was not spent on comfort women.

At that time, the grandmother said that she would not attend the collection of the demand. Since then, Jeong Yeon-yeon has announced that he will reveal the details of the donation, but it was controversial due to the opaque accounting process.

Grandma’s input statement sent out the day said, “I have been working with Jeong-Yeon Yeon for a long time to resolve the issue of women’s comfort for the past 30 years.” .

“I think there is a need to overcome the mistakes or errors in business methods that have arisen in the fight to discover the truth for the past 30 years,” regarding the Jung Yeon-yeon donation. “We need to create a process for everyone to sympathize with the correct business method, responsible execution process, and transparent disclosure.”

Furthermore, he said, “I think (Jeongui Yeon) needs to focus on the necessary projects, not new ones, and organize the results so that everyone can easily understand and empathize with the process.

Regarding the controversy that during the 2015 South Korean comfort women deal, Yoon Mi-hyang, former President Jeong Yeon-yeon, had previously learned about Japan’s 1 billion yen deal, the grandmother said: “The government opinion gathering process and its contents, and the governments of officials During interviews with relevant parties, the contents of the dialogue and other related matters should be published as soon as possible, and the trust of our society should be restored. “I think we should reveal the general process of agreement and resolve problems based on public evaluation.”

Survivor Lee Yong-soo, a survivor of Japanese women’s comfort women, is accusing related organizations of arguing that the lawsuit meeting should be dropped at an afternoon press conference held at the tea house in Nam -gu, Daegu. yunhap news

The relationship between former President Yoon and Grandmother Lee began in 1992. For more than 30 years, the two have been working to solve the comfort women problem since former President Yoon received a phone call from his grandmother to comfort women. However, when former President Yoon ran for the 21st general election, he took over as President Jeong Yeon-yeon. Since then, he has been elected as the proportional representative of the Citizens Party.

At the press conference on 7, the grandmother said, “The problem of women’s comfort must be solved by Yoon Mi-hyang, Jeong Yeon-yeon’s representative. Yoon should not be a member of the National Assembly.” I have have to solve this problem. ”

In addition, she emphasized the importance of exchange and education between students from both countries in the process of solving the problem of comfort women. At the front door, the grandmother said: “We need to prepare for the future history for the establishment of a solid relationship of exchange between the Korean and Japanese peoples, who are directly parties.” “I hope that activities such as exchanges and joint actions between students from both countries will expand.” Said.

Finally, this grandmother said: “We have been receiving a lot of help and healing from the people.” As a springboard to the achievements we have made with proud people, we have achieved human rights and peace, reconciliation and forgiveness, solidarity and harmony that are common values ​​in our society. I hope I can go “.

◇ The following is a special entry for Yongsu Lee’s grandmother

[ 5월 7일 기자회견 이후 관련 논란에 대한 입장문 ]

Lee Yong-soo wants to reveal some aspects of the controversy that has taken place in our Korean society since the press conference on May 7.

Firstly, to create a society in which the pains of the grandmothers that I have experienced and the pains of the Japanese grandmothers have not been repeated, the official recognition of the crime and the apologies of the perpetrated country of Japan, the identification of the truth At that time and legal compensation, I announce that formal punishment and legal and institutional measures to prevent future recurrence must be in place to restore the honor and human rights of victims, including myself.

For the past 30 years, I have been doing many activities with the Psychiatric Problem Response Council and the Memory of Justice Coalition since then. Meanwhile, through the activities, the issue of the comfort of women victims should be avoided, not only at the national level, but also at the global level, and the deconstruction and waste of the debate on the achievements that attracted empathy and participation and action that all of humanity should never have again. Let me say a few things on the premise.

First, apart from the responsibility of the perpetrating country, this problem-solving process requires a perspective that prepares the future history for establishing a solid exchange relationship between the people of Korea and Japan. In this sense, I believe that education for students in both countries is important. We hope that activities such as exchanges and joint actions between students will be expanded that will build the future relationship between the two countries. We hope that this process further extends the value of human rights and peace.

Secondly, I believe that a process is necessary to overcome the errors in business methods that have arisen in the process of fighting to reveal the truth over the past 30 years. This is not a process of criticizing someone, but a business method suitable for the current era, a process of responsible execution and a process with which everyone can sympathize through transparent disclosure. I think we should focus on promoting the necessary projects, not the new ones, and organizing the results so that anyone can easily understand and empathize with the process.

Third, regarding the agreement between Korea and Japan during the Park Geun-hye administration in 2015, the content of government public opinion and its contents, as well as conversations with government officials of Dae Dae officials- hyeop, they must be disclosed immediately to restore the confidence of our society. . There is nothing to contribute for us with the assumptions, accusations and unfounded dismissals raised by the existing media. I think we should reveal the whole consensus process based on our people’s beliefs and solve problems based on people’s evaluation.

Meanwhile, our activities have progressed little by little based on the sympathy of many.
I believe that pain is not healed by other pain, but is healed by the heart that surrounds itself and worries.

Meanwhile, we have received a lot of help and healing from people.
I hope that the achievements we have made with proud people are a stepping stone to achieving human rights and peace, reconciliation and forgiveness, solidarity and harmony that are common values ​​in our society.

Lee Yong-soo tells me what to do with the rest of my life and my mystery on the road to building such values, and I hope for the sympathy and cooperation of many people.
Thank you.

May 12, 2020
Human rights activist Yong-Soo Lee

Daegu = Reporter Baek Kyung-seo [email protected]