Fight to face the past intensifies at Korea’s last camptown detention center for sex workers

For decades, an abandoned building with barred windows and faded walls in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, has stood as a reminder of a system few speak about openly. Now, as the city moves to demolish what is believed to be South Korea’s last remaining sexually transmitted disease detention center, long-simmering conflict over whether to erase or confront one of the country’s most painful legacies is resurfacing.