South Korea held an unveiling ceremony Tuesday for a monument memorializing Korean women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military, as the nation observed its first official "comfort women" memorial day.While the comfort women issue remains a source of tension between South Korea and Japan, South Korea last year enacted a law designating Aug. 14 as a day to honor Korean comfort women, as on the same day in 1991 Kim Hak Soon became the first victim to give testimony about the hardships the women faced."The comfort women issue is not just a historical problem between South …READ FULL ARTICLE
