The central theme of this paper is that during the colonial period the formation of women``s subjectivity was depressed, creating the social conditions for the large scale mobilization of ``Comfort Women`` for Military Sexual Slavery(abbreviated herea...
The central theme of this paper is that during the colonial period the formation of women``s subjectivity was depressed, creating the social conditions for the large scale mobilization of ``Comfort Women`` for Military Sexual Slavery(abbreviated hereafter as MSS) from the 1930s until 1945. The distorted pattern of women``s labor participation during forced industrialization, introduction of public prostitution system and the policy to extinguish Korean nationality were major social conditions for the mobilization of MSS. The MSS mobilization caused more serious trauma in the formation of women``s subjectivity, and the fact that it was kept for secret for more than 50 years after it occurred, again distorted the development of feminism in Korea. Its effect still reaches to curren women``s movements that suffer from deep trauma in the formation 0 women``s subjectivity.