Bahk Eun-ji has been with The Korea Times since 2012, building a career across multiple desks. She began at the Business Desk, where she conducted in-depth interviews with key figures in Korea's corporate world. Later, she moved to the Politics & City Desk, focusing on education policy and social affairs. She later served as team leader of the digital content team, leading curation efforts on the newspaper’s homepage and reshaping print stories for social media audiences to enhance digital reach. Now back on the Politics Desk, she covers the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Defense, with a renewed focus on political developments.
Singer gives 75 million won to sex slaves
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By Bahk Eun-ji
Veteran singer Lee Moon-se has donated 75 million won to Korean victims of the Japanese military’s sexual enslavement of women.
Lee, 58, visited Nonoom House (House of Sharing), a house for comfort women in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, on Wednesday to donate money earned from selling Christmas cards he made.
Under the project, “Lee Moon-see’s X-friends Art Collaboration,” the singer worked with popular illustrators and calligraphers to make Christmas cards.
Lee said he decided to donate money when he sang his hit song, “A Little Girl” at the DMZ Peace Concert on Aug. 15.
Lee said he thought of the victims while singing because they also used to be ordinary little girls.
“Please let us solve the historical issue and hope the victims spend their latter years in comfort,” he said.
He also wrote a message on his Facebook page: “You remain as the most beautiful and little girls forever.”
Nanoom House said it would spend the money on welfare of the women.
Only 46 Koreans are left of 238 victims registered with the government.
Lee Moon-se, known as“the emperor of ballad,”made his debut in 1978 as a host of “Seventeen” on CBS.
His hit songs include “Blue Bird,” “Sunset Glow,” “Old Love” and “Fly In the Deep of the Night.”