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COMFORT WOMEN

is dying from lung cancer and she is too weak to get out of bed. At 15 ended up at a comfort station, where she became pregnant and bore a son, whom she had to give up to an orphanage. Her son soon died of a pneumonia. She never married and lived alone most of her life. After the war, she worked in factories and cleaned houses.
Kang Tokkyong, 67,

is dying from lung cancer and she is too weak to get out of bed. At 15 ended up at a comfort station, where she became pregnant and bore a son, whom she had to give up to an orphanage. Her son soon died of a pneumonia. She never married and lived alone most of her life. After the war, she worked in factories and cleaned houses.