Comfort women to mark 1,000th rally for Japan’s apology, compensation
Social affairsDec 9, 2011
“So we have one rally to go to mark the 1,000th straight time,” said 86-year-old Kim Bok-dong as she waited for the weekly protest to start around noon in front of the Japanese Embassy in downtown Seoul last Wednesday. She is one of six former sex slaves who braved the cold weather, armed with hats, blankets and pocket warmers to join the Wednesday Protest. It was just a week before the 1,000th straight weekly protest by the women, called “halmeoni” here in Korea out of deference to their senior