Korea Tiptoes Toward Reconciling Comfort Women Issue

Yoon government seeks to push a painful issue into the past

By: Shim Jae Hoon

It is noon in Seoul, time for young, activist Korean women to rush to the Japanese embassy to protest under banners denouncing wartime Japan’s dragooning of thousands of Korean women as “sexual slaves” for Japanese soldiers fighting in remote parts of China and Asia.

These Wednesday rallies on behalf of the so-called Comfort Women have c…