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suspicions were raised about the use of donations for comfort women, a press conference was held by the Justice Memory Association. It said that about 40% of the donation income received over the past three years from 2017 was executed as support for victims.

Reporter Hong Young-jae.

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response to the suspicion that the donation was not being used properly for the grandmothers avoiding the suspicion of the grandmother, Jeongui Memory Regiment began a press conference saying she apologized for hurting her grandmother.

However, the details of income and expenses were disclosed.

In 2017, donation revenues totaled 3.5 billion won for three years.

Among them, non-designated donations minus donated funds, such as the Butterfly Fund to help women victims of sexual violence in the war, is 2.22 billion won.

The Justice Memory Regiment explained that 41% of the total, 990 million won, was used for grandmothers.

This donation includes more than 800 million won that was donated to grandmothers in 2017 as a citizen fundraiser.

The Justice Memory Coalition emphasized that it is not the only project to support victims.

He explained that the company is engaged in projects such as health treatment support, human rights and honor recovery activities, shelter operations, and regular visits, and does not include labor costs.

[Han Kyung-hee / Chief of the Memory of the Justice Association: I am trying to comfort myself by forming intimacy with my grandmothers that cannot be expressed on a budget, and having a family-like relationship.]

Responding that it was a choice for the purpose of the scholarship, he pointed out that the 'Kim Bok-Dong Scholarship' in honor of the old grandmother Kim Bok-Dong was paid to the children of a civil society activist who served as the director of the Euijeong Memory Association.

(Video coverage: Taehoon Kim, Video editing: Jaesung Lee)