Write at the beginning of the text:
During World War II, Japan's aggression against Asian countries and regions was an eternal wound. Wherever the inhumane Japanese army went, corpses were strewn everywhere. Countless people died under the guns of the Japanese army, and women in Asian countries and regions also became the objects of the Japanese army's desires, including our ancestors. In the areas where the Japanese army set foot, the women were captured by the Japanese army as "comfort women" and became the playthings of the Japanese army. Every time we mention the words "comfort women", our hearts are extremely heavy, and we feel like a thousand pounds of boulders pressed on our chests, and we can't breathe.
Yonhap News Agency reported that in 2019, Yoo Seok-chun, a former Yonsei University professor, said in a public lecture that comfort women can be called a type of prostitute. This incident aroused the anger of the South Korean people, and public opinion rose even higher, and the South Korean people accused the university professor one after another, believing that his inappropriate words were a betrayal of history. Therefore, based on the pressure of public opinion, Yoo Seok-chun, a professor at the university, was sued in the South Korean District Court. After three years, the South Korean District Court finally has the latest trial results on this matter, but this trial result has made countless people angry, not only Korean netizens, but also Chinese people.
On January 24, 2024, the Western District Court of Seoul, South Korea, acquitted former Yonsei University professor Yoo Seok-chun in the first instance. The reason given by the Korean District Court is that although contrary to traditional ideas and inappropriate metaphors, the Constitution of the Republic of Korea highly guarantees the academic freedom of universities and the freedom of professors, and even if the content seems to be contrary to established conventions and order, it should not be easily regarded as illegal. His remarks were not directed at individual victims, but rather abstractly portrayed the group of victims of the comfort women system. Yoo Seok-chun's other remarks related to comfort women caused reputational damage to another South Korean association and was fined 2 million won, or about 10,000 yuan.
The result of the first-instance trial of the South Korean District Court against Yoo Seok-chun was unexpected by Korean netizens, and the result of such a trial was difficult to convince Korean netizens, which aroused the attention and heated discussions of netizens. South Korean netizens angrily denounced Liu Xichun: This kind of remarks is simply an act of treason, this kind of person is still a university professor, in vain as a teacher, and the court's verdict makes the people feel even more chilled; South Korean netizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the court's verdict and also scolded the professor Yoo Seok-chun.
This incident not only caused a huge reaction in South Korean society, but also attracted the attention and heated discussions of Chinese netizens. Netizens have said one after another that being able to make such remarks to a university professor like Yoo Seok-chun is undoubtedly a spy of Japan and a justification for the Japanese, and at the same time it is also a betrayal of history, and even more so a slander against the comfort women; Liu Xichun's remarks have hurt the hearts of many South Korean people, how can he be worthy of his country and people, and what kind of face he has to be a university professor; a high degree of education does not mean that he has a good character, and do not forget that national shame is the basic quality that the citizens of any country that has been invaded should have; it is obvious that this Professor Liu Xichun does not possess such qualities。
During World War II, the Japanese army's "comfort women" system was one of the most serious crimes committed by Japanese militarism, and most of the comfort women came from China, South Korea, and the Philippines, as well as other countries and regions in Asia. Among them, China and South Korea have the largest number of "comfort women", and Chinese and Korean historians generally believe that the "comfort women" were mainly brought by the Japanese army through lure and coercion. This point is irrefutable, and it is undeniable that the fact that a professor at a South Korean university has gone so far as to say that "comfort women" are equivalent to "prostitutes" is a blatant betrayal and disregard for history.
In the judgment of the Korean District Court, it repeatedly claimed that it was to protect the academic freedom and the freedom of professors in universities, but in essence, such remarks are a denial of history, and this is no longer about the issue of academic freedom and professorial freedom. The freedom of any country is not absolute, but should be based on history and within the scope of the law. If, for the sake of so-called academic freedom, even one's own country's history can be denied, then such academic freedom is not necessary, and there is no need and meaning for its existence.