Of the 47 former comfort women who were alive when the agreement was signed, 35 would receive 100 million won (9 million yen, or $66,330) each under this arrangement. However, some former comfort ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the conviction of the former head of an advocacy group ...

Yoon Mee-hyang was jailed and fined for embezzling funds meant for Korean 'comfort women' in a case that dragged on for ...

SEOUL—The Seoul High Court on Nov. 23 overturned a lower court ruling and ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 16 plaintiffs, including former “comfort women” of the ...

Thousands of "comfort women" were drawn from Korea, and the issue has long driven a political wedge between Tokyo and Seoul. Getty Images The Statue of Peace in Seoul is a tribute to former ...

“We don’t expect it to be raised. But the position of the Philippines on this issue is that compensation claims by former comfort women are considered to be already settled as far as the gover ...

Seven former "comfort women" have died this year. Only 48 victims are still alive in South Korea, where 238 women were once registered with the government as former sex slaves. Choi Kum-seon ...