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KYODO NEWS - 24 hours ago - 20:11 | World, AllSouth Korea on Wednesday observed its official "comfort women" memorial day for a second year, with a ceremony commemorating Korean women who were forced to work in the Japanese military's wartime brothels.
"We will establish the comfort women issue as one of women's human rights and educate a new generation so that it will be remembered as a historical lesson," Jin added.
Moon said Wednesday's ceremony was made possible because former comfort women were not afraid to speak publicly about the hardships they faced.
The South Korean government in 2017 designated Aug. 14 as the Japanese Military Comfort Women Victims Memorial Day, as on that day in 1991 Kim Hak Soon, a former comfort woman and human rights activist, became the first to testify about the hardships the women faced.
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