Lee Young-hoon

Lee Young-hoon (이영훈, 李榮薰, born 1951 in Daegu, South Korea), Lee Yong-hoon, Rhee Yong-hoon, or Yi Yŏnghun was a professor of Economics at Seoul National University and the president of the Naksungdae Institute of Economic Research (낙성대경제연구소).[1]

For other people named Lee Yeong-hun, see Lee Yeong-hun (disambiguation).
In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
Lee Young-hoon
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationI Yeong-hun
McCune–ReischauerRi Yŏng-hun

He is a member of the Textbook Forum of the New Right Party.[2] He is known for undertaking new positivistic research on the Economy of Joseon.[3]

He challenged a common belief in Korea that--Japanese colonial rule and development has been an absolute evil--by arguing that the number of comfort women (largely regarded in South Korea as sex slaves) and forced laborers is exaggerated in Korea's textbooks.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] In an internet lecture broadcast on August of 2016 Lee contends: “The comfort woman system was a licensed prostitution system under the control of the military…. The comfort women were not sex slaves…. Korean comfort women were recruited by pimps by means of advance payments and outright fraud…. There is no evidence that there were 200,000 Korean comfort women. The number is somewhere around 5,000”.[5] Comfort Woman included woman from a multitude of countries including Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, and other parts of Asia. After raising doubts by saying, "(If there's any) Tell me which scholar is actually claiming that Governor-General of Korea forcibly transported comfort women", he was criticised in South Korea.[11]

Career

He graduated from Department of Economics, Seoul University and earned Doctor of Economics. He was an associate professor of Economics at Hanshin University and a professor of Sungkyunkwan University. He is a co-representative of Textbook Forum.[12] He was also the winner of the Kyung-Ahm Prize in 2013.[13]

Works
  • Rhee, Young Hoon (2004). 수량경제사로 다시 본 조선후기 [A Cliometric Review of Late Chosŏn History]. Seoul National University Press. ISBN 9788952105417.
  • Rhee, Young Hoon (2007). "대한민국 이야기'해방전후사의 재인식' 강의" [Story of Republic of Korea, Lectures on "Re-acknowledging before and after the liberation"] (in Korean). 기파랑 [Giparang]. ISBN 8991965601.
  • Lee, Young-hoon; et al. (July 2019). 반일 종족주의 : 대한민국 위기의 근원 [Anti-Japan Tribalism: the root of the Korean crisis]. 미래사 (Milaesa).
  • Lee, Young-hoon; et al. (May 2020). 반일 종족주의와의 투쟁 [The struggle against anti-Japan Tribalism]. 미래사 (Milaesa).

See also

References
  1. "대한민국 이야기'해방전후사의 재인식' 강의" [Story of Republic of Korea, Lectures on "Re-acknowledging before and after the liberation"] (in Korean). Daum.
  2. "A Textbook Alternative to the Historical Leftist View". DailyNK. 27 March 2008.
  3. "The Fall of the Joseon Dynasty Began with Its Economy". Dong-A Ilbo. September 18, 2004.
  4. "[Editorial] Professor Lee Young-hoon's Academic Courage Should Be Given Credit". The Dong-A Ilbo. April 28, 2005.
  5. https://japan-forward.com/why-korean-professor-believes-comfort-women-were-not-sex-slaves
  6. http://staff.texas-daddy.com/?eid=502
  7. https://en.yoshiko-sakurai.jp/2016/10/20/7499
  8. http://harc.tokyo/en/?p=76
  9. http://nadesiko-action.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Comfort-Women-Not-Sex-Slaves_FINAL_annex.pdf
  10. http://english.donga.com/List/3/all/26/241054/1
  11. 加藤達也 Tatsuya Katou 朴槿恵大統領との500日戦争を終えて [Finishing 500 days war against President Park Geun-hye] in Seiron March 2016 (in Japanese).産経新聞社 [Sankei Shimbun Sya]. p.127
  12. "뉴라이트 연쇄 인터뷰 (10) 李榮薰 낙성대경제연구소장" [New Right chain interviews (10) Lee Young-hoon Naksungdae Institute of Economic Research] (in Korean). August 2006.
  13. "9th Kyung-Ahm Prize Laureates (2013)". Kyung-Ahm Education & Culture Foundation. Retrieved 7 October 2019.



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