This undated file photo shows a demonstration calling on Kyunghee University to discipline Prof. Choi Jung-shik over his controversial remarks on “comfort women.” (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A professor is facing a prosecution probe on charges of defaming Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery by calling them prostitutes during a lecture, police said Tuesday.
The Seoul Dongdaemun Police Station said it referred Choi Jung-shik, a philosophy professor at Kyunghee University, to the prosecution without detention on the day on charges of defaming the Korean sexual slavery victims, euphemistically called “comfort women,” during his lecture on March 9 last year.
Choi is accused of claiming that the comfort women voluntarily followed the Japanese military to engage in prostitution. Police began an investigation into Choi after a civic group filed a complaint and a sexual slavery victim submitted a handwritten statement calling for strong punishment of the professor.
Separately, the university has been moving to discipline Choi over his controversial remarks.
(Yonhap)
