Kim Byungheon

Kim Byungheon is a South Korean educator, author, and director of the Korean History Textbook Research Institute. Kim has completed PhD programs in Korean Literature at Sungkyunkwan University and History at Dongguk University. Kim has written several books, including the recent "Red Wednesday: Comfort Women Activism and 30 Years of Lies."

History Distortion

South Korea's Comfort Women Issue: Coming to Terms With the Truth

Kim Byungheon December 5, 2023

The author analyzes how poverty was at the root of the comfort women issue...

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The Comfort Women: South Korea's Task of Separating Fact from Fiction

Kim Byungheon December 4, 2023

South Korea's government needs to investigate the truth as chroniclers continue irresponsibly perpetuating the...