南韓女性傢庭部刪減2017年度支援前慰安婦預算

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family slashes 2017 budget for former comfort women
　　The budget for the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’s 2017 "livelihood stability and commemoration project for surviving comfort women，" revealed on Sept. 5 by People’s Party lawmaker and National Assembly Gender Equality and Family Committee member Shin Yong-Hyeon， amounted to 3.039 billion won， down 1.126 billion won from 4.165 billion won this year.
　　「國民之黨」國會議員兼國會女性傢庭委員會成員申容賢，9月5日揭露女性傢庭部編列的明年度「支援尚在世慰安婦生計安定暨紀念方案」預算，總計30.39億韓元，較今年的41.65億減少11.26億韓元。
　　"In the press release it issued on Sept. 2 to explain the 2017 budget， the ministry didn’t include even a line of reference to this budget cut，" Shin said. "You get the sense they were intent on hiding the truth."
　　申容賢說，「在該部9月2日為說明其2017年度預算而發佈的新聞稿中，隻字未提這筆預算被砍」，「你會感覺，它們刻意隱匿事實」。
　　The ministry came under fire in June when it presented a budget reduction request of 2.866 billion won for the project. Critics said the reduction， which slashed all funding for efforts to gain UNESCO listing for archival materials related to the comfort women， appeared to have been influenced by an agreement reached by the South Korean and Japanese governments on the issue last Dec. 28.
　　6月該部提出削減該方案預算28.66億韓元時遭抨擊。批評人士指出，此一削減使致力讓慰安婦相關檔案列入聯合國教科文組織名錄的全部經費遭到刪除，此舉似乎受到南韓與日本政府去年12月28日就慰安婦議題達成的一項協議影響。
　　During a preliminary review， the Ministry of Strategy and Finance originally planned to cut the budget further to 2.627 billion won， but ended up raising it slightly to 3.039 billion won amid the growing controversy.
　　在初審期間，企劃財政部原擬將該預算進一步砍至26.27億韓元，惟在爭議愈來愈大下，最後才略增至30.39億韓元。