군 위안부/정신대의 개념에 관한 고찰 = A Study on the Concepts of "Military Sexual Slavery" and "Jungsindai"

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Since the beginning of the 1990s the issue of military sexual slavery began to be publically discussed in our society, which spread to Japan, Asian victimized countries and world society soon. When this issue was raised in our society, it was conceptualized as ``Jungsindai`` issue, which means that the historical fact of military sexual slavery bad been imbedded as the name of ``Jungsindai`` in the mind of Korean people. Because of the criticism against confusing the military sexual slavery with voluntary coops for factory labor (Jungsindai) from the side of Japanese people, and the necessity for separating Korean women drafted for factory labor and those for military sexual slavery, the civil society and the government of Korea decided to use the term, ``Ilbongun Wianbu``(Comfort women for the Japanese military). But the problem to clarify the reason why Korean people who lived in the colonial period have the name ``Jungsindai`` in their mind still remains. We should dig out the socio-histocial meaning of the conceptualizing ``Jungsindai`` by ordinary Korean people, and study on social institutional background forming the institutions of military sexual slavery and compulsory factory labor during the colonial period. In this paper I tried to clarify that the institutions of military sexual slavery and compulsory factory labor were enforced not in clearly distinguished ways in colonial Korea, which was different from that in Japan at that time.