Four days before the commemoration of the comfort women victims, the `` Japanese Sex Slave Victims Celebration '' was held on October 10 at the 1st History Square of Gwangju Nanum, Gyeonggi-do, where shelter victims of comfort women were.

August 14, the commemoration of the comfort women victims, was the first day that the late Grandmother Kim Hak-soon (1924-1997) first publicly testified of the damage to the comfort women in Japan.
At the event, two grandmothers, Lee Ok-sun (92) from Busan and Lee Ok-sun (89) from Daegu, lived in sharing, and 10 families of comfort women victims.
Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung, Minister of Women and Family Jin Sun-mi, Chairman of the Gyeonggi-do Council of Song Han-jun, and lawmakers So Byung-hoon and Lim Jong-sung, members of the Gwangju district, participated.

Sung-woo, the head of the House of Sharing, said at the Girim History, "Grandmothers consistently insist that the Japanese Prime Minister must apologize and remedy is a problem later. We must gather our strength so that we will never again. "

The Governor accused Japan of starting economic aggression, a group that would have no military aggression if it had the opportunity and capacity. I've beaten the pain of invasion. "

The governor added, "It is up to our generation not to be in Japan again," he said. "I hope that we will develop a nation that is united and free of human rights violations."
Mr. Jin said, “On behalf of the state, I am very sorry and sorry for not being able to solve all of these problems.” “I will try hard to remember the world of my grandmothers and try not to repeat them again.”

Rep. Sohn Byung-hoon and Lim Jong-sung also pointed out that Japan's economic aggression is a widespread and open denial of war crimes, and that they must punish the people who deny war crimes in Japan until the end.

The event, which was broadcasted by the broadcaster Park Jae-min, also provided girim performances such as the National Gugak Folk Orchestra, Dance Company, Film History Choir and Gyewon Herald Choir.

Six grandmothers live in the home of the Social Welfare Corporation, established in 1992, and the average age is 94 years old.

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