The comfort woman statue set up in front of Gwangju City Hall in 2015. It was announced on June 21 that five districts in Gwangju will set up comfort women statues, not the seated version across from the Japanese embassy in Seoul, by Aug. 14, International Comfort Women Day. Aug. 14 was designated International Comfort Women Day because it is the day that Kim Hak-sun became the first former comfort woman to publicly testify about her experiences in 1991.