Unveiling ceremony held in Seoul for "comfort women" memorial

Unveiling ceremony held in Seoul for "comfort women" memorial

Seoul Mayor Park Won Soon (L) along with former "comfort women" who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels attend a ceremony to unveil the "Site to Remembrance" in central Seoul on Aug. 29, 2016. The memorial site features stones on which the names of former South Korean comfort women and their accounts of suffering are inscribed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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