People attend the 1,400th weekly protest against Japan's wartime sex slavery in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul
The 1,400th Wednesday Rally against Japan's wartime sex slavery, August 14, 2019 : Wearing traditional Hanbok, tourists watch people attending the 1,400th weekly protest against Japan's wartime sex slavery as policemen stand guard in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. August 14 is International Memorial Day for Comfort Women, which is the date the late Kim Hak-Sun, a former comfort woman, first publicly testified in 1991 about Japan operating an organized military brothel program during World War II. According to local media, historians say up to 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, were coerced into sexual servitude in front-line Japanese brothels during World War II when the Korean Peninsula was a Japanese colony. (Photo by Lee Jae-Won/AFLO) (SOUTH KOREA)