Comfort Women: A New Musical

Comfort Women: A New Musical
MusicBryan Michaels and TaeHo Park
BookDimo Hyun Jun Kim, Osker David Aguirre, and Joann Mieses
Setting1941, Keijō (Seoul), Korea, Empire of Japan
Basistestimonies of former comfort women and Japanese war crimes of the IJA
PremiereJuly 31, 2015: St. Clements Theatre
ProductionsDimo Kim Musical Theatre Factory

Comfort Women: A New Musical is a musical about the Korean comfort women who were sold as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. It is written and directed by Dimo Hyun Jun Kim, a South Korean theater director.