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President Park Should Publicly Apologize for South Korea’s Sexual Violence in Vietnam

Posted October 14th, 2015 at 11:04 am (UTC-5)
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Forty years ago, Park Chung-hee – the current president’s father and a former general, led over 320,000 of his U.S.-allied troops into the War in Vietnam. Throughout the war, South Korean soldiers violently raped and sexually assaulted thousands of young women, some as young as 13 and 14 years of age.