You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 621

You Have Been Defended – Episode 621 (621/641)

[My Mom: Your delusions have gone too far, lol.

Kim Kyungin: I’m really going to hear all kinds of nonsense, lol.

Drug Addict: You expect us to believe that now?

Bro: She’s completely insane, lol.]

Despite Kim Mija’s words, the viewers’ reactions remained cold.

It was only natural.

Among netizens, Kim Mija was already labeled a pathological liar.

In that climate, who would believe her story about being sold off by Wooshin?

“If you disrupt the broadcast with excessive swearing, I will freeze the chat. PD, block everyone who swore.”

Choi Jonghyun frowned at the flood of insults.

─No, don’t freeze the chat. It doesn’t matter what anyone says.

Kim Mija then said.

─I know many of you think I’m delusional, and it’s shocking, so it’s hard to believe. And the academic forgery is indeed wrong. I understand the current reaction. I was prepared for this from the moment I reported the organ trafficking.

The woman who had knelt before me, wanting to protect her life, was now unrecognizable, so hardened she had become.

From the moment she decided to give up everything and accept the consequences to expose Wooshin’s atrocities, she showed a very strong will.

She must have spent countless hours agonizing to get to this point.

Since it wasn’t an easy decision, her mind wouldn’t be easily swayed.

─I was born in Baekgeumdo in ’67. And at the age of 13, I was kidnapped from Baekgeumdo and handed over to Japan. I was confined with other young girls like me in a small room, and when the time came, I was thrown into a luxurious geisha house and sexually exploited by political and business figures who were Wooshin’s sex entertainment targets.

[Sigh lol: Kim Mija has watched too many movies, lol.

Want to Eat Gwamegi: Just listen for a bit, damn.

Pay My Credit Card Cherry: Are you just itching to swear?

Bunny: You’re really going all the way. Think about your parents. Even if you’re cornered, how sad would they be to know their daughter is spreading such nonsense?]

Before starting the broadcast, Choi Jonghyun advised Kim Mija not to look at the chat.

However, Kim Mija seemed to be reading the chat with the broadcast turned on in one corner of the screen.

Her gaze was fixed to one side, and her eyes moved quietly.

─How sad my parents must be… That’s right. They must have been very sad. Reporter, can you put up the banner photos?

A photo popped up on the screen.

It was a collection of photos of banners that Kim Mija’s parents had put up all over Mupyeong to find her.

It was also evidence that moved her heart, which had been set on not seeing her family.

─These are the banners my father put up in Mupyeong right after I went missing to find me.

“Time has passed, and the ink has faded and worn in some places, but the content is clear enough. More than anything, I think the residents of Mupyeong must have seen these banners. Is there anyone who has seen them?”

[You Reporters: Stop fabricating, lol.

Lim Hyungil: This isn’t fabricated. I’m from Mupyeong, and this banner is very famous.

Pull: Wow, it’s been hanging in the same place for at least 20 years, so everyone in Mupyeong knows it?

Pepper Pepper: Is this Kim Mija that Kim Mija? ㄷㄷㄷ If you’re from Mupyeong and don’t know this banner, you’re a spy.

Park Lora: Mupyeong people gathering, lol. I’ve been seeing it with my friends since we were kids, and I was wondering when they would find her.]

As if they had been waiting, citizens of Mupyeong appeared from everywhere.

Mupyeong is a big city.

Kim Mija’s father deliberately chose places where people could see and check the banners.

At first, he didn’t know the regulations and hung them up wherever they were visible, but they kept being taken down, so he even bought advertising space to hang them up.

So, there would be no one living in Mupyeong who hadn’t seen this banner before.

“In addition, Kim Mija’s family advertised to find Kim Mija through various channels.”

Following this, photos of snack bags and portal site banners with missing person ads popped up.

[Hyangsugi: Even if that’s true, so what? That’s proof she went missing, not proof Wooshin kidnapped her.

Vandalism: The sexual exploitation story is too much, lol.

Discharge: How do you know if she ran away or was kidnapped? How can you believe it with this?

Alcoholic: What does that have to do with academic forgery, lol?

Bunny: I see she’s trying to bury the academic forgery by pretending to be a victim, lol.]

─The reason I’m telling this story is not to gain sympathy or forgiveness by saying I was kidnapped and sexually exploited by Wooshin. The reason I revealed that I was kidnapped is to prove that I’m not telling a far-fetched story. From the beginning, I don’t deserve sympathy.

“What do you mean by that?”

─I condoned Wooshin’s human trafficking, knowing about it, and I managed the geisha house where such heinous acts took place. So I am… an accomplice.

Kim Mija’s voice sounded very desolate.

Choi Jonghyun and Jo Bongjoon even sighed as they listened to her voice.

─It’s a long story. I hope you’ll listen even if you don’t trust me. Reporter, can you open photo number 1?

At Kim Mija’s words, Kim Jungwoo displayed a folder full of photos on the screen.

And he clicked on the photo that was sorted at the very front.

It was a panoramic view of the geisha house.

─This is what the geisha house I managed looked like. It will be registered as a residence.

“It’s disguised similarly to Misung’s medical facility, which was a place for organ trafficking. It was also registered as a residence.”

─Yes, it will be. Because both are part of Koh Sangjoon’s human trafficking business. Koh Sangjoon tricked the children of Angel House by saying he would send them to study abroad in Japan, and he used those children to provide sexual entertainment to high-ranking officials. The place where Onodera Masao discussed organ trafficking with Koh Yoonsoo was also here.

Since the number of photo files was so large, Kim Jungwoo moved on to the next one at appropriate intervals.

─People who receive sexual entertainment are checked with various detectors before entering the geisha house. After that, they leave all electronic devices and go inside. This is a measure to prevent conversations or photos from leaking. In addition, the reception room is thoroughly checked before guests arrive. Oda Satoshi keeps insisting on wiretapping… Wiretapping cannot happen there.

“I’m sure that’s the case. Oda Satoshi said that he recorded the conversation here, right? How could he bring a recorder in when it’s so strictly managed?”

─My husband, Oda Satoshi, was exempt from that procedure. Of course, on the surface, he pretended to be checked himself. I was also checked, but as a manager, I was able to take pictures like this by taking advantage of the gaps. Can you move on to the next photo?

Kim Mija explained dozens of photos of the geisha house one by one.

The external structure designed to prevent the children of Angel House from escaping, the place where the children waited, the vehicles used to transport the children of Angel House to the geisha house, the reception room—everything was there.

─Wooshin probably cleaned up this geisha house first after the organ trafficking was discovered. I don’t know what happened to the building, but at least they took out all the furniture.

[Sigh lol: What a load of crap, lol. Kim Mija claims she was kidnapped at the age of 13, which was in ’79. Even if you count it as the Korean age, it’s ’80. Angel House didn’t even exist then, lol.

Drug Addict: How can you be kidnapped from a place that didn’t even exist, lol.

My Mom: Anyone can just take pictures and say those things.

Vinyl: Writing a novel, lol. I can’t listen to this.

Stand: Not only forgery of private documents, but she’s also determined to be sued by Wooshin, lol.]

Chat messages that continued to contradict Kim Mija appeared every time she said a word.

However, Kim Mija remained calm and answered calmly.

─Before Angel House was established, they used methods such as luring people with promises of good jobs or kidnapping young children who didn’t know anything, like me. Korea was not prosperous at the time, and many people know that human trafficking was rampant at that time.

“…Kim Mija, you said you were kidnapped by Wooshin and went there, but how did you become a manager?”

─This is also a long story. Do you have enough time?

“Of course.”

─The children who were brought there were sexually exploited without knowing why… Of course, they resisted and tried to escape. But they failed every time. They were caught and brought back, and when they were caught, they were severely beaten. In fact, there’s no way to make a living even if they escape. We didn’t go through the formal entry process, so we’re undocumented. We didn’t receive a penny, so of course we don’t have anything.

“…That’s terrible. Was there no way to ask for help from the embassy, or something like that? Of course, it would have been difficult because of the times…”

─Now that I’m all grown up, I think there might have been such a way, but I didn’t know anything at that time. Besides, I don’t think I would have used that method even if I knew it.

“Why is that?”

─There was a man who managed the children who were brought there. I don’t know his name, but he was just called Manager Han. That person told us who asked to be sent home, ‘You have nowhere to return to; your family sold you. Where are you going back to?’

“But Kim Mija’s parents have been desperately looking for Kim Mija for a long time, haven’t they?”

─Yes. I was deceived. So I lived resenting my parents for over 30 years, believing those words. Without knowing that they missed me so much…

“You’ve been married to Oda Satoshi for 5 years, right?”

─Yes.

“But your family has been hanging banners in Mupyeong. Then that’s also…”

─That’s right. I was in a situation where I could find my family, but I didn’t. I still believed they had abandoned me.

“…How can such an absurd thing happen?”

─Since I was abandoned by my family, I had to live there for the rest of my life. So I thought it would be better to do as I was told. If I resist and run away, I’ll be horribly beaten, but if I just give up my dignity as a human being, if I act the way they want, I might not get hit. So I desperately tried to please them… and did as I was told…

Kim Mija’s voice was already mixed with tears.

But she didn’t shed tears or cry out loud.

She drank water, calmed her breathing, and continued to speak.

─Then I caught the eye of my current husband, Oda Satoshi, and Oda Satoshi didn’t want to share me with other people, so he took me out of there. At that time, Oda Satoshi had a wife. I knew I shouldn’t, but I didn’t want to… I didn’t want to live in that hell anymore, allowing strangers to use my body. …That’s how I became his mistress, and that was the beginning.

“Then the academic forgery also started as you became closely related to Oda Satoshi?”

─Yes. When Oda Satoshi’s wife was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given a limited time to live, he wanted to remarry me, so he started laundering my existence, saying that if he married a woman as insignificant as me, he would look ridiculous. He knew I was good at drawing, so he forged my academic background and career in that direction…

“…I see.”

─I’m not saying it’s not my fault. I also followed Oda Satoshi’s words and agreed. It’s clearly my fault.

Before the broadcast started, Kim Mija said that she would reveal the circumstances of the academic forgery, but she didn’t want to make lengthy excuses.

At first, she wanted to argue that she had no choice, but when she thought about it, that wasn’t the case.

She should have said she didn’t like it more actively, but she couldn’t.

More than anything, she said that if she tried to defend herself in a place prepared to expose Wooshin’s wrongdoings, it could unnecessarily provoke a backlash.

Choi Jonghyun also seemed to have decided to respect her opinion.

He immediately changed the subject.

“You said before that Oda Satoshi played a bridge role between Koh Sangjoon and Japanese political and business figures, right? Was sexual exploitation also the same?”

─Yes. To be exact, he was a human trafficking business partner.

“Then Kim Mija, did you take over the operation of the geisha house as you became closely related to Oda Satoshi?”

─Yes. At first, I was going to refuse. I barely escaped from that hell, so there’s no way I’d want to go back.

“But how did you become a manager?”

─The Manager Han I mentioned earlier said this to me: ‘How long do you think you can stay by Oda Satoshi’s side? He’ll get tired of you soon and throw you away. Then I’ll have to go back to the geisha house. No matter how much I struggle, that’s what he’ll make me do… Wouldn’t it be better to manage than to live as a prostitute again? Even if I get old and no one looks for me, there’s always a use for me…’