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As Professor Harvard Ramsay provokes the history distortion of the victims of comfort women, the battle for truth in the American academic world is very unique and meaningful. Academia related to history, law, and economics in the United States is infested, and more and more statements and verification reports from scholars are coming out on this matter. Since the related issue is about the victims of comfort women who are directly related to us, following the scholars’ debate is of great significance and I think we should somehow record it.
The rebuttals of Professors Andrew Gordon and Carter Ackert, who teach history at Harvard University, reported a few days ago, were destructive enough to describe the defeat of Professor Ramsey in one shot. The fact that the contract for prostitution for the comfort women could not be confirmed, and that there was no statement from a third party would be the same as the death sentence as a scholar, but Professor Ramsey has not yet responded. After that, five Japanese history researchers reviewed Professor Ramsey’s thesis. <학문적 부정행위로 논문 철회가 필요한 사건>The verification report was published under the title of. Professor Ramsey’s thesis is only eight pages, which is more than four times the volume. In a word, this report can be said to be a’stop moving’ report.
The authors of this report included five authors: Stanley Northwestern University Professor, Shepard Cambridge University Researcher, Chatani University Singapore Professor, Ambras North Carolina State University Professor, and Chelsea Cedar Aoyama Gakuin University Professor. The active countries are the United States, Asia, Europe, etc. They are global historians in name and in reality, and all of them have a common point as professional athletes in the academic world specializing in Japanese history. Professor Chatani wrote on Twitter, “Our team literally made this verification report day and night for the past two weeks,” and “I am proud to be part of this.”
This report points out errors in Professor Ramsey’s thesis in four major categories. ▲The problem of not being able to admit that there is no evidence ▲The problem of the use of direct evidence ▲The problem of the use of indirect evidence ▲The problem of using inappropriate and inaccurate citations as a big topic, I listed specific cases below and dismantled Professor Ramsay’s thesis. . Since I searched all the sources of the paper and checked the facts, I thought that even if the Allied Forces of this kind invested a full two weeks, it was not an exaggeration at all. There are many other contents, but I will summarize the part of Ok-ju Moon, who is particularly problematic.
● “Moon Ok-ju, who lived the most outstandingly”… The source is a ghost blog of insults of comfort women.
Professor Ramzier described the comfort women victim Ok-ju Moon in his thesis as a person who signed a prostitution contract with the operator of a comfort station, earning a lot of money, saving a lot, eating well, and living well. The source of this section is expressed as (KIH, 2016b). However, when the thesis verification team followed this, it was confirmed that this was not an official publication, but was just an English translation floating on domestic internet blogs.
When I followed the actual link, this blog was just a domestic ghost site where a collection of articles degrading comfort women victims by a far right person. It has the title of Korea Institute of History, but there is no administrator picture on the introduction page, and all there is an e-mail hanging. I sent a question to this email if there is a real admin, but there are no answers yet. After posting 39 posts in 2016, it was a so-called “homologous blog” that was abandoned without activity. Posts had a lot of external links, but many were linked to Internet bulletin boards such as DC Inside as well as the far-right daily best site known as’Ilbe’. The contents were all denying the reality of the victims of comfort women. After the news went out, there were some viewers’ opinions in the Internet comment that “The bad group assignments do not come from blogs,” but it was actually what happened when Professor Harvard wrote his thesis this way.
By the way, Professor Ramzier even edited this ghost blog post for evil. The ghost blog also said, “I had more freedom in Yangon than before. Of course I am not completely free. I could only go out once or twice a month with the permission of a Korean comfort station manager.” The ghost blog also expressed that he was deprived of his physical freedom, and Professor Ramsey skipped this sentence and put it in the thesis from the following sentence. “I enjoyed going shopping by rickshaw. I can’t forget the experience of shopping in Yangon market,” it starts. It was a so-called’devil’s edit’ to make it look like a professional prostitute who goes all over Yangon, Myanmar, and spends money by excluding physical oppression. Prof. Ramzier expressed his grandmother Ok-ju Moon, saying in his thesis, “Moon Ok-ju seemed to have lived the best among Korean comfort women with a record.” It’s also annoying to see this expression, which feels even a little bit of a grotesque feeling that he is a person who leads an affluent life. It is also shocking that the scholar wrote this expression in the thesis while editing the devil targeting the victims of comfort women. If a broadcast reporter interviews a war victim and cuts the context back and forth in this way and broadcasts it, I think it would be difficult to maintain a journalist job anymore.
Global scholars went through the books of Morikawa, who actually interviewed Ok-ju Moon, and described the whole context. The report describes the terrible events that Grandma Moon suffered from being captured at a comfort station in Manchuria in 1940. A 16-year-old girl recalled that she cried all day when she was caught in Daegu and became a comfort woman for the first time in Manchuria, and when she learned she had to deal with 20,30 Japanese soldiers a day.
The comfort station officials encouraged them to work hard as they would get tickets when they deal with soldiers, and they could exchange those tickets for money when they go to Korea. But this was just a twist rather than a price for labor. Scholars are casually pointing out that there was no evidence that Mr. Moon received money for signing a prostitution contract, and that there was no evidence of such a ticket in Manchuria. The report explains that Moon’s actual memoirs point to a series of processes that point to force and deception.
Not only the ghost blog, but even Professor Ramsey wrote in the paper that Moon’s grandmother saved a lot of money with tips. (I saved a considerable amount of money from tips). It means that the money was not collected from the money given by the comfort station, but that the soldiers gave individually. It seems that Grandma Moon, who is active and active, was trying to save money in order to escape the hell cave. However, the money deposited at the Shimonoseki Post Office was refused due to the San Francisco Treaty saying she could not return it because her grandmother was no longer Japanese.
Eventually, Moon died in 1996, without touching the money in her hand. In an interview with Mr. Morikawa to tell the history of the tragic war, Professor Ramzier completely distorted the victim’s history in order to fit his formula as a comfort woman as a prostitute. Cases are still listed in the report, and personally, I don’t think Ramsey’s thesis is lacking in terms of academic fraud. I contacted several authors, all of whom declined to video interviews. Prof. Amy Stanley of Northwestern University sent a brief written response as a representative, saying, “I hope that the International Legal and Economic Review in which the thesis is published will refer to our report and withdraw the thesis.” For them, the issue of comfort women victims was not a problem between Korea and Japan. I think that the’historical distortion riots’ that took place in the field of science were suppressed by the method of scholars.
● Draft thesis and operate the Ethics Committee… “Strict fact check review”
Apart from the dissertation on the distortion of the comfort women victims, the serious problem of Professor Ramsey’s Harvard debate material has already been reported several times. In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that the debate material is a’disgusting paper’ from the water level alone. Among these, the Great Kanto Earthquake distorted the massacre of Koreans. <자경단: 일본 경찰, 조선일 학살과 사립 보안업체>In the case of the discussion material titled, Cambridge Press, which had decided to publish it as an official journal, took steps to take priority from the Pre-Public Site (SSRN).
Professor Alon Harrell of the Law School of Hebrew University, Israel, was the editor-in-chief, and I sent an e-mail explaining why he did this, and even though it was well past midnight local time, he sent me an answer. When I sent the e-mail, I said a little hard that Koreans accept this problem, similar to the distortion of the Holocaust that Israel suffered, and Professor Harrell felt a lot of surprise. I didn’t think I would give you an answer at that late time, but I sent an answer in writing, saying that I would not do the interview. He replied, “A rigorous review is underway to confirm the facts of the paper before publication,” he said. “We confirm that the paper is never published like a draft.” At the same time, I also sent an email to the editor at Cambridge Press to ask for an answer, and Matt Gallaway, senior editor, responded, saying, “We are running an ethics committee and are reviewing it.”
● Korea, the country that suffered from comfort women… How should we deal with this problem
On the one hand, I thought it was good that this issue happened in the United States. It is a great achievement that a person who can observe from a certain distance and meet the box office requirements of a professor at Harvard University brought the logic of the Japanese far right and wrote it in a dissertation, and academia all over the world frustrated it. The painful history of the victims of comfort women is not a target of battle, but a fact that has already been confirmed historically and has been confirmed by world scholars as their work. Even if the domestic extreme right people distort the evidence to suit their tastes and make a Ramzi assertion that “there was no forced mobilization of Japanese imperialism, the comfort women are prostitutes”, it also set a good precedent for how to respond to them.
I think our academic community should be quick to refute these historical distortion attempts with the most sophisticated data and examples. When a bizarre person named Professor Ramsey came out, I wondered if he was sponsored by Japan, and that was why he was excited and angry because he didn’t need to see the content. In fact, it is a normal situation for American universities to sponsor and donate companies so that Harvard University itself was named after a pastor who made a large donation. In particular, the reality is that there are many schools in the U.S. that cannot maintain a professorship without corporate sponsorship in humanities, which is not expensive. Nevertheless, it is true that academic freedom is a top priority in the United States, and scholars do research freely regardless of the will of such sponsoring companies. As you can see from this incident, it has also been confirmed that such an academic rebellion can be fully responded by’packing’ with academics.
But it is also impossible for us, as parties, to completely exclude emotions. Personally, when I ask myself why I am so clinging to Professor Ramsey’s case, which has no one-sided knowledge, I wonder if it may be because of a big wound and anger in one corner of my heart as a Korean when I actually see this man’s thesis. Nevertheless, I don’t think that political use or emotional response to these events will help at all. Some of the far-rights in Korea are just relentlessly joining Japan for their political interests, and I think what they want is to turn the comfort women case into an emotional mess rather than revealing the facts.
I’m really curious what Professor Ramsey is thinking about this situation. When I sent an e-mail in the early days of the crisis, I used to send an e-mail saying “I don’t interview” almost the same day, but nowadays I sent 7 e-mails for five days and only received an e-mail saying “I don’t interview” yesterday. If I get a chance to ask a question, I really want to ask, “Did you know what the blog you quoted?”