Biography of Women Victimized by the Sex Trade in Gyeonggi Province's Military Base Towns and Methods of Elderly Lifelong Education

The purpose of this study is to support the elderly lifelong education for active aging of women victims of prostitution in military base towns who have become elderly. The research problem is to reconstruct the life histories of women victims of prostitution in military base and propose a method of needs-based senior lifelong education. The research method applied life history research method. The results of the study showed that they were born as daughters in poor families and settled in the base village, a hastily constructed US military comfort facility, after the Korean War in their teens. In middle age, after stopping work amidst systematic repression and surveillance, they were rejected by their families and cut off from the outside world, suffering from the four afflictions of old age: poverty, illness, loneliness, and loss of role. Lifelong learning for active aging should support capacity development for emancipatory practices so that old age becomes an opportunity for new life. Specifically, it should support the acquisition of legal knowledge about human trafficking, human rights abuses, and compensation for damages; help them discover the meaning of their lives; and develop their capacity for social participation so that they can break free from subordination and become emancipatory beings.