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World > Asia & Oceania
South Korean academic acquitted of defaming 'comfort women'
By Agence France-Presse
Oct 27, 2023 12:11 am

SEOUL: A South Korean professor who challenged the consensus view of Japan's wartime sex slaves was acquitted of defaming the victims on Thursday, overturning an earlier verdict.

Park Yu-ha of Seoul's Sejong University was found guilty in 2017 of defamation for questioning the popular narrative that all euphemistically termed 'comfort women' were forcibly dragged from their homes by Japanese soldiers during World War 2.

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