Women's life during WARS in the 20th Century
*This is the research of "Conditions of prostitutes"
*This Statistics upload on <seoul newspaper> in
March 17, 1979
Number of prostitutes women was lower before the Korean war
1948(a) 19.0%
1949(b) 40.7%
1951(c) 25.2%
1952(d) 33.2%
1953(e) 29.3%
but percentage is getting higher after Korean war
1965(i) 74.2%
1971(j) 85.7%
Most of women who lost their husband during war
have to earn money for their living.
but women have low opertunity to get a job/work.
No way to earn money without became prostitutes
In Dec. 1950, the first brutal winter of the war in Korea, the Army established a special cold injury center affiliated with Osaka Army Hospital in Japan and treated more than 4,000 soldiers. The winter program resumed in 1951. Physical therapist Catherine (Owen) Horne, of California, treated frostbite cases and United Nations troops. Horne remembered that she and other physical therapists treated as many as 225 patients a day.
During the Korean War, US made " The Army Women’s
MedSpecialist Corps" and assigned women to be physical
therapists and dietitians
Catherine (Owen) Horne
Women’s Medical Specialist Corps/Army Medical Specialist Corps (Physical Therapist), Aug. 1948-Feb. 1961
A war widow
"I want to make sure that there are no more war widows like my mother, and no more children like me who don't even know their own fathers,"
Valentina Tereshkova
Vladimirovna Tereshkova is the first woman to have flown in space.
Her fater was died during WW2.
Meaning of a war widow is a woman (or man) whose spouse has been killed in war.
During Korean war, All of Man was forced to join the War left behind their wife and children.
several Man coming back after war and therefore the war widowed many women.