▲ Lee Na-young, Chairman of Chungui Memories Association
The controversy that the donation was not properly used to the grandmothers who suffered from the comfort women said that there was no problem in managing the fund, saying, "It is not just the victims' support project to deliver the funds."
On the morning of the 11th, Euiyeon Yeon held a press conference at 'Human Rights Foundation' in Seongsan-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul.
Prior to the press conference, Lee Na-young, chairman Jeong Yeon-yeon, said, “I humbly accept the grandmother's sadness, anxiety, and anger that I have been in this family for the past 30 years.” I'll tell you, "then bowed and bowed.
Earlier, Lee Yong-soo (92), a victim of the Japanese comfort women, said at a press conference held in Daegu on the 7th, stating that 'Juie Yeon Yeon received money and funds, and never wrote it to her grandmothers' and 'I don't know where to spend the money'. .
In this regard, Jung Yeon-yeon issued an entrance statement and explained that the fundraising usage is verified through regular audits and disclosed through a public disclosure process.
However, as the controversy over group accounting continued, Eui-yeon Jung held an additional press conference on this day to explain.
Eui-Yeon Jeong explained that from 2017 to 2019, 911 million won, or 41% of the total of 2.22 billion won in donations, were executed for the victim support project.
This amount includes the total amount of 800 million won raised by adding a general donation to the 700 million won raised by 1 million citizens in 2017 as a female human rights prize.
"The victim support project is being carried out with support for health treatment, human rights and honor recovery activities, regular visits, outings, emotional stability support, and shelter operations," Han said.
In addition, he said, "These expenses do not include the following labor costs."
In addition, Jung Yeon-yeon said that the amount raised through the demand gathering last year was about 4.6 million won, which he used to conduct the full demand demonstration.
He also explained that the cost of running the demonstration was about 110 million won per year.
In addition, in the disclosure of the use of donations, the number of beneficiaries in the 'victim support project' item was stated as '99, '' 999, 'etc. I will fix it. "
Euiyeon Yeon also denied suspicions that the Japanese government had refused to receive 1 billion yen to pay through the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation during the 2015 Korea-Japan agreement.
Lee Sang-hee, director of justice Yeon-hee Lee, said, "It was entirely through the grandmothers' decision to receive the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation Fund. We visited the grandmothers individually to check their intentions."
In addition, regarding the suspicion that Japan knew that it would appear in 1 billion yen in advance, "the contents were discussed through media reports even before the announcement." "We haven't told you about it. We didn't receive any information about 1 billion yen until the announcement of the official agreement."
Lee also expressed a strong regret for the media reports surrounding Lee Jung-yeon following Lee's press conference.
"Is it possible to damage the world history of human rights activists created by victims and activists in the past 30 years in this way?" Lee said. "When no one raises a problem, brave victims and dedicated activists and researchers have created the movement." "I honestly wondered if you knew the history."
On the other hand, outside the press conference, officials from the 'Anti-Japanese Anti-Violence Realization Team' and 'Comfort Women's Human Rights Recovery Practice Coalition' held a picket and held a rally to condemn the former President Yoon and the justice team.
(Photo = Yonhap News)