Korea's former comfort women's facility management organization Most of the donations are illegally funded money 0:29 on August 12

A Buddhist group that operates a facility where women of former comfort women live in South Korea collected about 780 million yen in donations over five years, but only about 2% of it was used to operate the facility. , It turned out that most of the rest seemed to have been illegally saved.

Regarding the Buddhist group that runs the “Nanum House”, a facility where women of former comfort women live on Gyeonggi Province near Seoul, South Korea, in May this year, illegally accumulate donations and Is being diverted to some unrelated purpose, and some officials have accused the police of the investigation.

Against this backdrop, a research team made up of Kyunggi Road, university professors, and lawyers held a press conference on the 11th, and announced the results of the research conducted last month.

According to this, of the donations of about 8.8 billion won and the Japanese yen of over 780 million yen collected by the group over the last five years, only 2% were used to operate the facility.

It was also found that most of the rest were illegally accumulating money for the construction of paid elderly facilities.

Kyunggi Road will consider administrative sanctions in the future based on the results of this survey.

About 20 college students have filed a lawsuit against the group in Seoul to return donations.

In addition, another organization that holds a protest rally near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul has been pointed out to be uncertain, and has been investigated by the prosecution.In Korea, it is difficult to support former comfort women. The line of sight is directed.