S. Korea author found guilty of defaming former "comfort women"

A South Korean appeals court on Friday overturned a lower-court acquittal of an author and found her guilty of defaming former "comfort women" in her book.Park Yu Ha, a professor at Sejong University in Seoul, was also fined 10 million won (about $8,000) for citing false information in her 2013 book "Comfort Women of the Empire," thereby defaming the honor of the women forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military.The Seoul High Court decision followed a January acquittal of the Japanese literature scholar by the Seoul Eastern District Court on the grounds that freedom of expressio…READ FULL ARTICLE