Diasporic Hallyu: The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture by Kyong Yoon (review)

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some unwanted attention from neo-nationalists and thus be vulnerable to their exploitation and manipulation.1 Without a doubt, The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory greatly expands the scope of extant scholarship on the comfort women, and as such it will appeal to a wide readership, including scholars, students, and the wider public. In particular, the wider public, who are not scholars of the subject under investigation, will find it beneficial with the (perhaps intentional on the part of the editor or author) frequent repetition of various information, such as the explanation of certain words (e.g., obasan, pp. 70, 87), background information (e.g., William Bradley Horton, pp. 104, 150), and footnotes (e.g., Park, pp. 71, 84). Nonetheless, the book will certainly engage the reader in discussions about gender, sexual slavery, human rights, and more, both within and beyond Singapore.