Former WWII sex slave mourned in Seoul
SEOUL - A South Korean woman who was forced as a girl into a brothel and sexually enslaved by the Japanese military during World War II was mourned on Wednesday by hundreds of protesters who demanded reparations from Tokyo over wartime atrocities.
Kim Bok-dong had been a vocal leader at the rallies that have been held every on Wednesday in Seoul for nearly 30 years. She died on Monday of cancer. She was 92.
On a street near where the Japanese embassy used to be, protesters gathered around a bronze statue of a girl representing Korean sexual slavery victims and held a moment of silence for Kim. Many of them held signboards with Kim's photos and words including: "We will never forget the life of Kim Bok-dong" and "Japanese government, apologize!"
