The statues are meant to pay tribute to "comfort women" - women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels, during World War II.They were installed in five buses across Seoul, to commemorate international "comfort women" day, which fell on Monday. On Aug. 14, 1991, Kim Hak-sun, a former comfort women, first publicly testified about Japan operating an organized military brothel program during World War II.International Memorial Day for Comfort Women, introduced in 2013, also falls on Aug. 14, the eve of South Korea's Independence Day.The bus will play a traditional Korean folk song, "Arirang,"as it passes the Japanese embassy. It will also pass by popular Japanese tourist destinations in Seoul.The plastic statues were initiated by the president of a Seoul-based transportation company, Lim Jin Wook, who says the government was not involved in the installation.But Seoul has clearly shown its support for the project, which will run until the end of September. The city's mayor, Park Won Soon, rode on one of the buses, saying it was an "opportunity to pay tribute to the victims."According to Lim, he does not want to make Japanese people "feel uncomfortable", but does not want the issue to be forgotten.
According to South Korean activists, there were an estimated 200,000 women forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. A large proportion of the wartime atrocitiesare believed to have happened in Korea, with others in countries like China and the Philippines.But Japan had for years denied the existence of comfort women, saying that the women were sex workers, and were not forced to provide their services. It was not until 2015 that Tokyo issued a formal apology and agreed to pay $8.3 million to victims in South Korea.However, some Koreans still find the apology insufficient, saying the agreement was reached without consultation with the victims - and many are still angry.A 1.5m tall statue, showing a comfort woman, was earlier last year installed by activists outside the Japanese embassy in the South Korean city of Busan.South Korea`s intention is against the spirit of the bilateral deal struck in December 2015 to resolve the [comfort women" issue [finally and irreversibly"In May, South Korean President Moon Jae-in told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a telephone conversation that most South Korean people could not "emotionally" accept the deal, hinting at a possible renegotiation.The administration of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who has pledged to review the agreement since he took office in May, announced in July that South Korea will establish a memorial day for the victims in 2018.The South Korean government has also announced it will launch an institution to study the comfort women issue in 2019 and set up a related history museum in 2020.And also on August 14, China's first to obtain the release of the "comfort women" theme record film "twenty-two" in the multi-theater officially released.Looking back at history in order to learn from the tragedy!
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