Kim, Soon-Duk was one of hundreds of thousands of young women from throughout the Asia Pacific region and other Japanese-occupied territories who were abducted and subjected to sexual violence by the Japanese military before and during World War II.
Author: EunSook Lee
EunSook Lee is the Director of the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund. Prior to that she coordinated the 2012 National AAPI Civic Engagement Project for the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development. She also supported Unbound Philanthropy, the Four Freedoms Fund and other funders on initiatives related to administrative relief and the DACA program. She is the former senior deputy for Congressmember Karen Bass, executive director of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), executive director of Korean American Women In Need, and station manager of CKLN Public Radio in Toronto, Canada.