this is a necklace I bought 2014 those
of diss items have something coming what
do you think is or have you ever seen
those of items
well black and white and is the theme of
this year’s TEDx talk what ideas do you
come up with as soon as you hear the
word black and white well canvass
Dalmatians actually Dalmatian where the
first idea that came into my mind but
I’m not that close with animals so I
kept thinking and thinking about the
theme again then there was a one story
that came into my mind
Somaly it was a story that not only
interests me but also is very
significant in Korean society so it’s
time to tell you the truth of my
bracelet and necklace both of these
items are all supporting artists for
Japanese military sexual slaves you buy
designers and certain percentage of the
profit goes to Japanese military sexual
slaves black skirts and lights hopefully
it was the symbol of Korean women during
Japanese colonial era however their
white shirts stay with their life love
and their life’s like like after being
deceived and taken far or inland by
Japanese army so I want to tell you why
I chose Japanese military sexual slavery
as the main topic of my talk today when
I was young my father was working at the
National Museum so my mom and I went to
the museum
almost every wicked and that is why I
love to study Korean history the space
and naturally I got interested in this
issue it might sound strange to say
interesting because it is literally a
tragedy but in this context interesting
means that you clearly attracted my
attention due to my interests toward
this issue I studied a lot so I have
quite a lot of ideas that I can share
with you but today I’d like to focus
them why do students have to pay
attention to this issue so we have to
know what exactly the Japanese military
sexual slavery is so let’s do some
shirts history but don’t worry because
it’s not going to be that boring lecture
so the tragedy starts from here the
Japanese Army Lord approximately two
hundred thousand Korean women through
blackmail virus kidnap and swindled
employments they said that there were
factories where the women could unlucky
but once they were employed the army
treated them as sexual slaves the slaves
were comprised of relatively young women
one of the youngest was just seventeen
years old the same age as I am right now
even worse was that their workers but
didn’t even start their first curious so
let’s go back to our main topic why do
students have to pay attention to them
well a lot of alleged victims are still
working hard to our Japanese government
to admit it and achieve sincere
apologies today but I think the reason
why they’re still working hard it’s not
only to get sincere apologies but also
encourage Korean people not to forget
them even they are not in this world
anymore so depressed investor remains
this what can we do for them and homes
as schools and as a student what can we
do for them there are mainly two tiny
activities and I suggest testing was
and articles but no one can judges which
of the activities better because just
remembering them and all of your efforts
that you do for them are all meaningful
so in the case of passive ones you can
watch TV programs or movies related to
them or you can buy supporting items
like ID just access to supporting
webpages and purchase anything that you
need pencil cases couches bags and alike
this stays the islets are not only
meaningful but pretty as well or you can
visit to a park in order to see the
Statue of peace you can easily visit
there on the way of hanging out with
your friends in downtown thank in the
case of activists it gets better ideas
like I’m doing right now
or how about participating in Wednesday
demonstration it is a weekly protests
demanding Japanese government to redress
the Japanese military there’s no slavery
issue or you can actually erect a stage
of peace or cell memory damages
yourselves as you see there are a lot of
activities that you can do once you pay
attention to them and once you try to
make a change so for me about four or
five years ago I participated in one
English speech contest in order to
spread their stories but at the time I
was too young to memorize the whole
script in English so on the stage I was
like oh my god
what was the word I’m sorry then I came
back to my chair
crying consequently I failed
describe your stories but I’ve tried
something for them
since I was very young seventeen what
did you do when you were 17 or if you’re
under 17 right now what do you want to
do if you become 7
studying taking something with your
friends or going to travel with your
family if our lives were in Flour 17 is
just a flower but waiting for the spring
to bloom into beautiful flowers but
about 70 years ago there were unlucky
puffs which are still waiting for the
spring to come and I mentioned earlier
the thing we have to do is to remember
them even they are not in this world
anymore
then there is a super famous Podesta a
nation that forgets its past has no
future and right now we the students are
the one who have to remember them thank
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