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= My Sister's Place = My Sister's Place is a private organization founded in 1986 in Uijeongbu, South Korea. Depending on the system of romanization used, My Sister's Place can be referenced as a variation of either Durenbang or Turenbang. The center focuses on improving the lives of Korean and foreign Philippine and Russian women who have entered the sex industry near U.S. military base camps. They work toward the eradication of all forms of trafficking and against U.S. and/or U.S.-Korean militarism. FOUNDED BY: Since 1955, U.S. troops have maintained a permanent presence in South Korea. These military camp towns have been created and maintained by both the U.S. and Korean governments as a mutually beneficial enterprise for the state that uses Korean and other foreign women in sexual services for American G.I.’s. The Korean government have long been accused of encouraging Korean women to have sex with military officials for the economic and political gain of the country as a whole. My Sister’s place is a non-profit government organization that works to recover the women involved and affected by prostitution in military camp towns through a number of mechanisms such as online counseling, community outreach, English classes, Hangul (Korean alphabet) classes, and legal rights classes.

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 * On a near daily basis, My Sister's Place offers classes to immigrant women to learn the Korean alphabet, Hangul, in an effort to achieve literacy and increase women's' agency . Immigrant women who work in the camp-town sex industries often have little Korean language acquisition and even less skills in literacy. In providing this free service to women, the program hopes to empower women and provide a valuable economic and social resource.

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Yoon Kum-Yi was a sex worker who was brutally murdered in October 1992 at Camp Casey in South Korea. She was murdered by a U.S. G.I., Kenneth Markle who subsequently became the first American soldier tried in a Korean criminal court for the murder of Yoon Kum-Yi. The result of his trial was a life sentence which was later reduced to 15 years in federal prison (HOW TO REFERNCE MOVIE??) THE WOMEN OUTSIDE.

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