They called it “comfort.” But there was nothing comforting about it. During World War II, women from Korea, Philippines, China, Indonesia, and other Asian countries were taken, trapped, and used as part of a war system — not accidents, not rumors, but organized abuse. Many were teenagers. Many never returned home. Most carried the trauma silently for decades. In 1991, Kim Hak-sun, a Korean survivor, became the first woman to stand up and say the truth out loud — “I was a Comfort Woman.” That one