[단독] Nobel Prize winners also signed a series of papers… “I can’t tolerate Ramsay”

Harvard University Professor Ramsey’s thesis, which has designated Japanese comfort women as prostitutes, has been told that economists around the world are running their papers.

Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung met alone with American scholars who had written the series.

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This is a forum for world economists calling for Harvard Ramsay’s thesis to be withdrawn.

It was signed by over 1,500 scholars just two days after it was released.

Nobel laureate in economics, Eric Maskin, Harvard University professor, John Roberts Stanford University professor, Larry Samuelson, Yale University professor, and other academic leaders were directly named.

Interesting scholars, who played a key role in the creation of this magazine, said they were surprised to see this enthusiasm.

[알버트 최/미시간대 법대 교수 : 이렇게 빠른 시간 안에 1천 명 이상 서명한다는 것 자체가 저는 한 번도 본 적이 없는 것 같습니다.]

In order to define comfort women victims as voluntary prostitutes, Professor Ramsey’s thesis, which claimed that even a 10-year-old girl was a contract prostitute, could not be left as a scholar.

[마이클 최/UCLA 정치학과 교수 : 너무나 문제였습니다. 우리는 멈추게 해야만 했고, 이런 논문을 더 이상 용납할 수 없었습니다.]

Professor Ramsey analyzed that the sole purpose of the thesis was to indulge Japanese imperial war crimes.

He explained that the meaning of the yeonpanjang is the will of scholars to prevent such papers from sticking to their feet again.

[수 미알롱/에모리대 경제학과 교수 : 더 이상의 이런 행동은 용납하지 않겠다는 결의를 보여주는 것이 더 중요한 목적이라고 생각해요.]

He emphasized that we must never forget the lessons this incident has posed to us.

[마이클 최/UCLA 정치학과 교수 : 유대인 사회는 사람들에게 유대인 대학살이 있었다고 정말 정말 열심히 교육했습니다. 우리도 똑같은 일을 해야만 합니다.]

(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha and Yoo Dong-hyuk, video editing: Kim Ho-jin)