"Comfort woman" statue in Pyeongchang

"Comfort woman" statue in Pyeongchang

Photo taken at the privately run Korea Botanic Garden in South Korea's Pyeongchang on June 19, 2021, shows statues of a girl (L) symbolizing Korean "comfort women," a euphemism for women who were made to work in Japan's wartime brothels, and a man resembling former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on his knees bowing to her.

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