Korea: Women and Way Home

korea: Ban, 72, was referring to the money disbursed by Tokyo last year to a South Korean fund set up to help the surviving women and their families, according to The Japan Times. It was part of a historic 2015 agreement with South Korea to heal the wounds caused Japan's sexual slavery before and during the war and permanently resolve the issue. If the 1 billion is related to the removal of the girls' statues . . . the money should be sent back, Ban told the Joong Ang Ilbo newspaper aboard an airplane on his way home to South Korea on Thursday. The women who were rounded up are euphemistically referred to by Japan as the ianfu comfort women . Under the pact, South Korea said it will strive to solve the issue of the well-known comfort women statue that was installed near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in an appropriate manner. Ban, widely considered to be eyeing a run for the South Korean presidency, said it would be nonsensical if the country removed the statues in exchange for the financial contribution from Japan. The row was set off when another was installed in December in front of the Japanese Consulate in Busan. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.