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Another former comfort woman passes away
The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan announced on June 25 that Kim Yeon-hee, 83, a former comfort woman, had passed away. Kim died of old age in a hospital in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, around 10 pm the previous day.
In 1944, Kim was a 12-year-old in the fifth grade of elementary school when her Japanese principal assigned her to the women’s volunteer labor corps. After working at a factory manufacturing airplane parts in Toyama Prefecture, Kim was taken to a comfort station in Aomori Prefecture where she spent seven months as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers. Following the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonial occupation, she returned home and lived alone.
On June 11, former comfort women Kim Dal-seon, 91, and Kim Oe-han, 81, both passed away. Of the 238 former comfort women who were once registered with the government, only 49 are still alive today.
By Kim Kyu-nam, staff reporter
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