There were no Korean subtitles during the screening of "63 Years On" at the Pusan International Film Festival on Oct. 4, which was strange since the 60-minute documentary about the Japanese Imperial Army's sex-slave policy during World War II is a Korean production.
Afterward, director Kim Dong Won apologized. He made one English version and one in Korean, and for some reason the wrong one was shown. The purpose of the English version was "to communicate (this issue) to other countries," he said through an interpreter, by having it aired on North America and European TV.
There is still controversy over the sex slaves in Japan, where they are euphemistically called "comfort women," with the government maintaining that there is no consensus about the number or whether they were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers, or the military's role in setting up and running the "comfort stations." Outside of Japan, few people seem to know about it.