Yoon Mee-hyang is a South Korean human rights activist, politician, and author.
12 Facts About Yoon Mee-hyang
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Yoon Mee-hyang is the author of 25 Years of Wednesdays: The Story of the "Comfort Women" and the Wednesday Demonstrations.
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In September 2020 Yoon Mee-hyang was suspended from the Democratic Party after being indicted by the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office on eight charges including fraud, embezzlement and breach of trust for misappropriating donations and government subsidies from the comfort women advocacy organization she was leading.
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Yoon Mee-hyang was born in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province, in 1964.
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Yoon Mee-hyang graduated from Hanshin University in 1987 and earned a master's degree in social welfare from Ewha Womans University in 2007.
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Yoon Mee-hyang established the War and Women's Human Rights Museum in Seoul in 2012.
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Yoon Mee-hyang has served as a founding member of the Korea Women's Foundation and as executive director of the Women's Subcommittee of the National Reunification Movement.
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Yoon Mee-hyang appears in The Apology, a documentary film directed by Tiffany Hsiung and featuring former comfort women Gil Won-Ok, Adela Reyes Barroquillo, and Cao Hei Mao.
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The Democratic Party of Korea suspended the party membership of Yoon Mee-hyang, who became a proportional lawmaker based on her career of supporting comfort women survivors.
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In 2024, Yoon Mee-hyang was convicted of fraudulently receiving government subsidies and unlawfully collecting donations and was sentenced to 1.5 years imprisonment, suspended for three years.
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In 2012, Yoon Mee-hyang was awarded the 9th annual Seoul Women's Award.
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In 2013, Yoon Mee-hyang was awarded the Late Spring Unification Award, given to individuals who have contributed to national reconciliation and reunification.