The comfort women issue of Japan is a serious human rights violation against women in the war period and, at the same time, an issue of universal conscience of humanity. The purpose of the play is to inform Koreans and citizens of the world of the comfort women’s true history and to create international empathy around the comfort women issue.

The play is based on the novel, Your mother was called s Korean P, which was the first novel to cover the comfort women issue. The script was written by the original author of the novel, Jung-Mo Yoon. By adding new stories of the protagonist’s son and granddaughter’s generation on top of the original story that closely describes the life of a woman whose human rights had been infringed by Japan, the author provides diverse perspectives on the comfort women issue through each character in different generations.

Accordingly, this play does not only reproduce and criticize Japan’s past atrocities, but also suggest that the comfort women issue, also known as the Japanese colonial sex slave issue is not just an overpassed history and it is a universal problem and a common task that is assigned to all of us to resolve.

Seoul Metropolitan Theatre Company is one of the nine affiliated art companies 0f Sejong Center for the Performing Arts which operates on the budget of the city Seoul. Since the foundation in 1997, the company, having its focus on popular appeal, artistic value and public interest, has been practicing the notion of ‘art in everyday life’ by striving to provide civil drama, artistic drama and Korean styled drama to the citizens of Seoul.