South Korean ‘comfort women’ database almost complete

A university research institute has been commissioned by the South Korean government to build a comprehensive database of documents related to the “comfort women” issue, Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday.
According to the report, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Affairs in 2012, during the administration of then President Lee Myng Bak, commissioned the Korean History Research Institute of Korea University to set up the database covering domestic and foreign official…