“She said the war ended in 1945 but the war did not end for us,” said Phyllis Kim, who leads the L.A.-based Comfort Women ...

SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- The family of a late comfort woman has won a damages suit filed against the Japanese government in South Korea, a local court said Friday.

The funeral altar for Lee Ok-seon, a victim of the Japanese military sexual slavery during the World World II, has been set up in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, following her passing on May 11. She was 97 ...

With Lee’s death, the number of surviving victims of the “comfort women” system registered with the Korean government falls ...

Under the accord, the Japanese government contributed 1 billion yen ($7 million) to a foundation set up in South Korea. The funds were then distributed to former comfort women and the families of ...

SEOUL: Senior officials from South Korea and Japan will meet Sunday ... day meeting in Seoul Monday to discuss the issue of “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese military brothels during ...

Born in 1924 in Muju, 183 kilometers south of Seoul, Gil Gap-soon was taken to Nagasaki, Japan, in 1941 at the age of 17 and forced to live as a comfort woman. She died in 1998 at the age of 74 ...

Liberal party's presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the liberal Democratic Party, views a ...

Johnny Somali has reportedly pleaded guilty to charges that could land him behind South Korean bars for a decades-long stint.