Unveiling ceremony held in Seoul for "comfort women" memorial

Unveiling ceremony held in Seoul for "comfort women" memorial

Seoul Mayor Park Won Soon (5th form L) and former "comfort women" who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels pose for photos during 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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