‘Comfort Women’ Day
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‘Comfort Women’ Day

Published: 14 Aug. 2017, 19:44
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Five-hundred miniature statues of a girl who symbolizes the so-called “comfort women” went on display at Cheongyecheon Square in central Seoul Monday to mark international “comfort women” day, which was created to commemorate the first-ever public testimony in 1991 by a sexual slavery victim, Kim Hak-soon. Civic organizations and activists kicked off a series of events in honor of victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. [YONHAP]
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