An English translation of Kim Soom's 2016 novel "Han myong" (one person), the first South Korean novel centered on so-called comfort women forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, has been released this month as the issue continues to cast a shadow on bilateral relations.Kim's novel, translated under the English title "One Left" by veteran husband-and-wife translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, draws on testimony from numerous former "comfort women" to depict the trauma of abduction and seven years of captivity in a Japanese military brothel as recalled by the protagonist, a Korean survi…READ FULL ARTICLE
