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Writer's pictureKate Lee

Interview with Han Kyung-Hee, War and Women's Human Rights Museum


Han Kyung-Hee is the Secretary General of The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan. Part of her work is to oversee the War and Women's Human Rights Museum in Seoul, which commemorates the stories of the โ€œcomfort womenโ€ of World War II. Recently, she kindly sat down with me for an interview, which you can read below in English or Korean.


English


How did you become interested in war and women's human rights? Can you tell us about your career journey?


I started as a civil servant in the Ministry of Gender Equality of the Korean government, and I also worked in a private civic group for womenโ€™s gender equality. As I became interested in women's human rights, I became active in the Korea Volunteer Corps Countermeasures Council and joined the Justice and Memory Solidarity in 2018.


What are you currently doing as the secretary general of The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan?


We support the Wednesday Demonstration and comfort women survivors. Through joint activities with various solidarity organizations in Korea and abroad, the stories of comfort women are being shared with international organizations around the world. Through the War and Women's Human Rights Museum, we are in charge of activities such as remembering and educating the past, and building archives to publicize it to the world.


How was the War and Women's Human Rights Museum started?


In the early 1990s, the issue of comfort women for the Japanese military was revealed to the world, and activities to hold Japan accountable and inform the international community began. In the early 2000s, it was recognized as a war crime in the international community and gained support from many people.


A commission to build a museum was started in 2003 to represent the voices of the victims and educate current and future generations. It took more than 10 years of preparation through a fundraising campaign to build the museum and the talent donations of architects. Funds were raised in Korea and around the world, and the museum was erected on May 5, 2012.


May 5th is Children's Day in Korea, and it implies the hope that the museum will be used as an educational method for future generations to remember the past and contribute to the future.


What are the goals of the museum?


The museum was created for a just resolution of the Japanese military comfort women issue, for this to be documented, educated, and to spread this message of peace more widely. It is a living museum that moves to the past, present and future. It is a museum that radiates messages to practice, remembrance, and action for women's human rights and peace not only in Korea but also around the world.


Truth doesn't build itself. Even now, there is still history denial and victim hatred. And since the perpetrators do not acknowledge their responsibility, denial of the dark history and human rights hatred for the victims continue to grow like poisonous mushrooms. In order for such injustice not to occur in the future and for human rights and peace to spread, we must remember the history that must never be forgotten in order to move forward. That is why we must stand in solidarity centered on this memory and stand up against actions that violate human rights. The War and Women's Human Rights Museum is conveying this message.


Participants in the 1400th Wednesday demonstration demand an apology and compensation from the Japanese government regarding the comfort women in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on August 14th 2019. Image courtesy of Hankyoreh.


Please explain the meaning of the Wednesday demonstration and the statue of the girl of peace.


The Wednesday demonstration first started on January 8, 1992. A Wednesday demonstration is held every Wednesday at 12:00 in front of the statue of a girl near the Japanese Embassy, โ€‹โ€‹and has been held continuously over 1,530 times for 30 years. Each time, more than 100 citizens, 100 students come voluntarily, sometimes 200, sometimes 300. Starting with a party of a few dozen people, people continue to come to protests. Young students also come, they come on school trips, club history tours, from the region, from the provinces. Hundreds of citizens and students from Seoul, provinces and all over the country arrive each time.


People gather at the Wednesday demonstration to speak about the issue of comfort women for the Japanese military and other issues of women's human rights. Those coming to the demonstration and talking to each other and educating each other are not only Koreans, but also foreigners who are interested in women's rights and the issue of comfort women for the Japanese military. Through this discourse, people are able to learn history, promote the value of human rights and peace, and now ask for more solidarity with women's human rights issues and women's sexual exploitation issues in their own foreign countries.


The Wednesday Demonstration has been going on for the past 30 years as a venue for education, culture, and solidarity among people around the world. At first, there were opposing forces and difficulties abounded. There were not many people gathering. However, more and more this issue touched many people's hearts and sympathized with them, and as the Wednesday Demonstration changed and developed in this way, education helped to develop women's human rights.


But recently, forces that deny history and hate towards victims have grown, and behaviors that interfere with Wednesday demonstrations have increased greatly. It hurts me very much. As the Japanese government hasn't acknowledged its responsibility in the past and no formal apology for a just resolution was made despite the long-standing request, and as Japanโ€™s conservative, political actions to avoid this responsibility became stronger, it seems that the forces following this wrong perception and wrong history have spread. So, the issue of comfort women for the Japanese military is not just a problem of the past, but a problem of human rights violations that are still happening. This means that remembering and recording the truth does not happen automatically. We have to talk together in solidarity so that the truth will not be folded. You must constantly remember correctly.


The Statue of Peace was first erected in front of the Japanese Embassy on December 14, 2011 with donations from citizens, and has since been erected all over the country. The Statue of Peace is not only a symbol of the victims of comfort women in the Japanese military, but also a symbol of our commitment to universal women's human rights and our desire for repentance. Currently, there are more than 140 statues of comfort women in Korea and 18 overseas. We didn't build the statue of a girl overseas. The statue of a girl is a symbol of commitment to universal women's human rights and pursuit of peace, and so many ordinary citizens who share this meaning voluntarily gathered their hearts and raised money in the region to create it. It is the same both in Korea and abroad; this problem is not unique to Korea. Since women throughout Asia suffered from sexual slavery in the Japanese military and this is also a universal issue of women's human rights, we must remember this painful history and history of human rights violations.


To prevent this from happening again, to let people know how precious peace is, statues of comfort women are being made all over the world. So even now, in fact, this problem is not stuck in the past. Let me take the example of the statue of a girl of peace in Berlin, Germany. Last time, there was an incident in Germany where an Asian woman was shot for being the target of racial hatred. After that incident, Germans held a candlelight solidarity protest in front of a statue of a girl in Berlin, Germany, with the issue of condemning a crime caused by racial hatred and prejudice against the woman and that this should never happen again. The Statue of Peace is becoming a base for the solidarity of people pursuing various women's rights. The meaning of the Statue of Peace is not simply staying in the past. It is becoming a base for action and solidarity of citizens working together for human rights and peace.


Please tell us about the achievements of the War and Women's Human Rights Museum so far.


Although the War and Women's Human Rights Museum is small, many people visit it. About 2,000 people visit each month. There are many people from all over the world who want to know about the history of comfort women for the Japanese military. It's a small museum in this small town. To that extent, this issue is becoming a great educational and memory place to remember human rights and engrave the value of peace in mind. Special exhibitions are planned every year here, and education for young people is also conducted. And now, we are creating a digital archive where more people around the world can share the value of human rights and peace, regardless of location.


Finally, what can we as individuals, or as a society, do to help this issue?


History issues are not just things in the past, and constantly remembering is to learn from history. And if you don't learn, the mistakes of history can be repeated in a different way. Learning and remembering history is the process of realizing how precious human rights and peace are to us. I hope that I am not the only one who is interested in and practices, but I want people around me to know and work together. And I think the international community, such as the United Nations, should more actively recommend and exert pressure on Japan.


Thank you so much!



Korean


์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์ด์ผ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋œ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ด์žฅ๋‹˜์˜ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ์ถœ๋ฐœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.


์ €๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ •๋ถ€์˜ โ€˜์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ€โ€™์—์„œ ๊ณต๋ฌด์›์œผ๋กœ ์ผํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ, ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์„ฑํ‰๋“ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„์‹œ๋ฏผ๋‹จ์ฒด์—์„œ๋„ ์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ โ€˜ํ•œ๊ตญ์ •์‹ ๋Œ€๋ฌธ์ œ ๋Œ€์ฑ… ํ˜‘์˜ํšŒโ€™ ์—์„œ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , 2018๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ โ€˜์ •์˜๊ธฐ์–ต์—ฐ๋Œ€โ€™์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ •์˜๊ธฐ์–ต์—ฐ๋Œ€์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ด์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ ํ•˜๊ณ ๊ณ„์‹œ๋Š” ์ผ๋“ค์„ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.


์ˆ˜์š”์‹œ์œ„์™€ ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€ ํ”ผํ•ด์ƒ์กด์ž๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์™ธ๊ตญ์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์—ฐ๋Œ€๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์—ฐํ•ฉํ™œ๋™์„ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ตญ์ œ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์— ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€ ์ด์Šˆ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ต์œกํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ™œ๋™๋“ค, ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ๋„๋ฆฌ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ด๊ด„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ํƒ„์ƒ๊ณผ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.


1990๋…„๋Œ€ ์ดˆ, ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ  ์ผ๋ณธ์— ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๋ฌป๊ณ  ๊ตญ์ œ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ™œ๋™์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”. 2000๋…„๋Œ€ ์ดˆ, ๊ตญ์ œ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์ „์Ÿ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๋กœ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ  ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”ผํ•ด์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€๋ณ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ์™€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ธ๋Œ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ต์œก์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ ์œ„์›ํšŒ๊ฐ€ 2003๋…„ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์„ ์ง“๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ์šด๋™๊ณผ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์žฌ๋Šฅ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋กœ 10๋…„ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ค€๋น„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ณณ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๊ณ  2012๋…„ 5์›” 5์ผ์— ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”. 5์›” 5์ผ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋‚ ์ธ๋ฐ์š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ธ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ต์œก์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์ด ์“ฐ์—ฌ์ง€๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์„ ๋‚ดํฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.


๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ์„ค๋ฆฝ๋ชฉํ‘œ์™€ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ ์‹ถ์€ ๋ฉ”์„ธ์ง€๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?


๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜ ์ •์˜๋กœ์šด ํ•ด๊ฒฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ก๋˜๊ณ  ๊ต์œก๋˜๊ณ  ์ด ํ‰ํ™” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋„๋ฆฌ ํผ์ง€๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ, ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋กœ ์‚ด์•„ ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ์ƒ๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์ด์—์š”. ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์ธ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ํ‰ํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฉ”์„ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„์‹ค์€ ์ €์ ˆ๋กœ ์„ธ์›Œ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ๋ถ€์ •๊ณผ ํ”ผํ•ด์ž ํ˜์˜ค๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€ํ•ด์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ ์–ด๋‘์šด ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ€์ •๊ณผ ํ”ผํ•ด์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ธ๊ถŒํ˜์˜ค, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์† ๋…๋ฒ„์„ฏ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ž๋ผ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์—๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ€์ •์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ธ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ํ‰ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ ˆ๋Œ€๋กœ ์žŠ์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด์•ผ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ์ธ๊ถŒ์„ ์นจํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰๋™์— ๋งž์„œ์•ผ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฉ”์„ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



์ˆ˜์š” ์‹œ์œ„์™€ ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์ˆ˜์š” ์‹œ์œ„์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ , ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์„ ์„ธ์šฐ๊ณ  ๋ณด์กดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.


์ˆ˜์š”์‹œ์œ„๋Š” 1992๋…„ 1์›” 8์ผ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋์–ด์š”. ์ˆ˜์š”์‹œ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ฃผ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ 12์‹œ์— ์ผ๋ณธ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ ์•ž์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š”๋ฐ 30๋…„๋™์•ˆ 1530ํšŒ ์ด์ƒ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์—ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค๋ฒˆ 100๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค, ์ž๋ฐœ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค์‹  ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๋ญ ๋ฐฑ ๋ช…, ์–ด๋–จ ๋• 200๋ช…, ์–ด๋–จ ๋• 300๋ช…. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด ๋ช‡ ์‹ญ ๋ช… ๋‹น์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์„œ ๊ณ„์† ์‹œ์œ„, ์‹œ์œ„ ์˜ค์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด์„œ ์ Š์€ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์™€์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์ˆ˜ํ•™์—ฌํ–‰์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์˜ค๊ณ  ๋™์•„๋ฆฌ ์—ญ์‚ฌํƒ๋ฐฉ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์˜ค๊ณ  ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋„ ์˜ค๊ณ  ์ง€๋ฐฉ์—์„œ๋„ ์˜ค๊ณ . ์„œ์šธ๊ณผ ์ง€๋ฐฉ, ์ „๊ตญ์—์„œ ์˜ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๋งค๋ฒˆ ๋ช‡๋ฐฑ๋ช…์”ฉ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์š”์‹œ์œ„์— ๋ชจ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ๋ฐœ์–ธํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ด๋–ค ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋ฐœ์–ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์„œ๋กœ ์„œ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์–ธํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์„œ๋กœ ์„œ๋กœ ๊ต์œกํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ•ด์™ธ์—์„œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ˆ˜์š”์‹œ์œ„์— ์˜ค๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ์ธ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์„œ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด์ œ ๋˜ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์™ธ๊ตญ ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์–ด๋–ค ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ์˜ ์ด์Šˆ, ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์„ฑ ์ฐฉ์ทจ์˜ ์ด์Šˆ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋” ์—ฐ๋Œ€ํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ์–˜๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์š”์‹œ์œ„๋Š” ๊ต์œก๊ณผ ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ธ์˜ ์—ฐ๋Œ€์˜ ์žฅ์ด ๋˜์–ด ์ง€๋‚œ 30๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด์–ด์ ธ์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์„ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ  ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ๋งŽ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ์ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ๋งŽ์ง€์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ ์  ๋” ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์™€ ๋‹ฟ์•˜๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ฐ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด์„œ ์ˆ˜์š”์‹œ์œ„๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ต์œกํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ์ด ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ณดํƒฌ์ด ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ”ผํ•ด์ž๋ฅผ ํ˜์˜คํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ ๋ถ€์ •์„ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์ปค์ง€๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์š”์‹œ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰๋™๋“ค์ด ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ์ปค์กŒ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์•„ํ”•๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ณธ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์–ด๋–ค ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ฃ„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ •์˜๋กœ์šด ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ด ์ •๋ง ์˜ค๋žซ ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ์š”๊ตฌ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋˜ ์ผ๋ณธ์ด ๊ต‰์žฅํžˆ ๋ณด์ˆ˜ํ™” ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ํšŒํ”ผํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์ •์น˜ ํ–‰์œ„๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•ํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ์ธ์‹๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ข…ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ๋ ฅ๋“ค์ด ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์—ฌ์ ธ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ธ๊ถŒ ์นจํ•ด์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„์‹ค์ด ์ง„์‹ค๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ก๋˜๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์ €์ ˆ๋กœ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ . ์ง„์‹ค์ด ์ ‘ํ˜€์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ๊ฐ™์ด ์—ฐ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์–˜๊ธฐํ•ด์•ผ ๋ผ์š”. ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด์•ผ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์€ 2011๋…„ 12์›” 14์ผ์— ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์„ฑ๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ณธ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ์•ž์— ์ฒ˜์Œ ์„ธ์›Œ์ง„ ์ดํ›„ ์ „๊ตญ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์— ์„ธ์›Œ์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์€ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€๋“ค์˜ ํ”ผํ•ด์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ณดํŽธ์ ์ธ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์ธ๊ถŒ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‹ค์ง๊ณผ ์ฐธํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—๋Š” 140๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ํ•ด์™ธ์—๋„ 18๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํ•ด์™ธ์— ์„ธ์›Œ์ง„ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ๋„ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์€ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”. ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์ด ๋ณดํŽธ์  ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‹ค์ง๊ณผ ํ‰ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒ์ง•์œผ๋กœ์„œ, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ์ž๋ฐœ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋ชจ์œผ๊ณ  ๋ˆ์„ ๋ชจ์œผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋„ ํ•ด์™ธ์—์„œ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์˜ˆ์š”. ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ž–์•„์š”. ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์ „์ฒด์— ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค์ด ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์—ˆ๊ณ  ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ณดํŽธ์ ์ธ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์ธ๊ถŒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ƒ์ฒ˜๊ฐ€ ์•„ํ”ˆ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ด๊ณ  ์ธ๊ถŒ ์นจํ•ด์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ด๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด์•ผ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ผ์ด ์•ˆ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ํ‰ํ™”๋Š” ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ์ง€ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ ์ƒ์ง•์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์ด ์ „์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ๊ฐ‡ํ˜€ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”. ๋…์ผ์˜ ๋ฒ ๋ฅผ๋ฆฐ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์„ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”. ์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ์— ๋…์ผ์—์„œ ์•„์‹œ์•ˆ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ์ธ์ข…์ ์ธ ํ˜์˜ค์˜ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๊ฒฉ์„ ๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ดํ›„ ๊ทธ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ด๋–ค ์ธ์ข…์  ํ˜์˜ค, ํŽธ๊ฒฌ์— ์˜ํ•œ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๋ฅผ ๊ทœํƒ„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค์‹œ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์•ˆ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์Šˆ๋กœ ๋…์ผ, ๋ฒ ๋ฅผ๋ฆฐ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ ์•ž์—์„œ ๋…์ผ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์ด›๋ถˆ ์—ฐ๋Œ€ ์‹œ์œ„๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์—ฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ด ๋˜๊ณ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์ƒ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ํ‰ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ํ–‰๋™๊ณผ ์—ฐ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.


์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.


์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ธ๊ถŒ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์€ ์ž‘์€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ž„์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ฐพ์•„์˜ค๊ณ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์— 2000์—ฌ ๋ช…์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์œ„์•ˆ๋ถ€์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•Œ๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์˜ค๊ณ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด ์ž‘์€ ๋™๋„ค์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์—์š”. ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ์ด ์ด์Šˆ๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ถŒ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๋Š”๋ฐ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ต์œก์ ์ธ ์žฅ์†Œ์™€ ๊ธฐ์–ต์˜ ์žฅ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ . ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งค๋…„ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ „์‹œ๋“ค๋„ ๊ธฐํšํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ ์š” ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์˜ ๊ต์œก๋„ ์ง„ํ–‰์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ์žฅ์†Œ์— ๊ตญํ•œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ธ๋“ค์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ธ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ• ์ˆ˜์žˆ๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ข€๋” ๋„๋ฆฌ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ์‹ค์„ ๋งบ์œผ๋ ค๋ฉด, ๊ฐœ์ธ๊ณผ ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ด์žฅ๋‹˜์˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์—ญ์‚ฌ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ์ง€๋‚œ ์ผ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์ž–์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ž˜๋ชป์ด ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ธ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ํ‰ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ์ง€๋„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜ ํ˜ผ์ž๋งŒ ๊ด€์‹ฌ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ™์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์œ ์—”๊ฐ™์€ ๊ตญ์ œ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์ข€ ๋” ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ณธ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ถŒ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ๋˜๊ณ  ์••๋ ฅ์„ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.




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