Aug. 14 rallies will be held worldwide and throughout Korea
Korea JoongAng Daily
Date: Aug 12,2019
Commemorations for the August 14th International Memorial Day for the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Victims are being held in 10 Korean cities and eight additional cities worldwide including Oxford, England, Taipei and Sydney, Australia on Wednesday, according to a civic group that has been hosting weekly rallies in Seoul to call for an official apology from the Japanese government for 27 years.
“On Wednesday we will be holding a rally in front of the former location of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul,” announced Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, a civic group based in Mapo District, western Seoul, in a statement earlier this month. “It will be a commemoration of the seventh anniversary of the August 14th International Memorial Day for the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Victims as well as the 1400th time we’re holding the regular Wednesday rallies to call for a resolution of the Japanese military sexual slavery issue.”
The weekly rallies have been led by Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan since 1992, with attendees demanding an official apology from Tokyo for the Imperial Japanese Army’s recruitment, under false pretenses, of tens of thousands of young women into sexual slavery during World War II.
The weekly rally began after a victim, Kim Hak-soon, stepped forward to make a public testimony as a victim of the Japanese military sexual slavery on Aug. 14, 1991, marking the first time a victim had done so. Kim died in 1997 at the age of 73. [FULL STORY]