Not All South Koreans Satisfied With Japan's Apology To 'Comfort Women'
In 2015, Japan signed an agreement giving $8.3 million to the few surviving comfort women. But South Korea's new President Moon Jae-in now says it's something his people "cannot emotionally accept."
by Lauren Frayer
May 30, 2017
3 minutes
Hidden in green hills east of South Korea's capital is the House of Sharing, a nursing home for elderly women.
It's a bright, spacious place. But its residents are survivors of a dark chapter of history.
"It was 1942 and I was only 15, running an errand for my parents [in our Korean hometown of Busan], when two Japanese men in uniform grabbed me by the arms and dragged me away," recalls Lee Ok-seon, now aged
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