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Six out of seven members of the university's disciplinary committee in the city of Sunchon, South Jeolla Province, chose the severest level of punishment for the professor, whose name is withheld, on Wednesday.
He was charged with failing to fulfill his duty faithfully and failing to preserve his vocational dignity. University President Park Jin-sung apologized for "those hurt by the blasphemous comments made by our school professor, especially the women who had gone through the ordeal in Japan.
The professor, 56, from the university's teachers' college, made the comments during a lecture. He said many of the women, also known as "comfort women," "probably knew that they were going to sexually serve the Japanese soldiers and thus voluntarily left for Japan.
The committee's decision becomes effective when the school's president approves it. The professor can appeal. He regretted the incident, saying he "must have been out of his mind because the class atmosphere at the time of my comment about comfort women was not good," Newsis reported. LA Opera declines details on Placido Domingo investigation on sexual harassment.
