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Q: Participants pay respects to Japan's wartime sexual slavery victims who died this year at Wednesday Demonstration near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, Wednesday / Yonhap 
  
  
  
 By Jung Min-ho 
  
  
  
 Many people have expressed anger and frustration over the Park Geun-hye administration's "secret deal" over the Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery. 
  
  
  
 "It is such a shame the Park government excluded the victims from its talks with Japan," said a 28-year-old woman, who refused to give her name. "The government is in no position to make a deal for them unless they agree. Apparently, they never agreed." 
  
  
  
 On Wednesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Park government did not make adequate efforts to listen to the surviving victims before reaching the agreement. 
  
  
  
 The two nations made the "final and irreversible" deal on Dec. 28, 2015, to resolve the longstanding diplomatic issue. Japan apologized to the victims and agreed to contribute 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) to a foundation dedicated to supporting them. 
  
  
  
 But the news shocked the victims, who had no idea about the government move. They said they could not accept an agreement. 
  
  
  
 "The deal makes sense only if there were no victims still living. But many are. I do not understand why the government made a rush for it," said a 66-year-old man surnamed Jung. "I do hope the two countries will work together for a better future after resolving the issue, but not that way." 
  
  
  
 Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul for the latest "Wednesday Demonstration," which has been held there every week since January 1992. 
  
  
  
 They urged President Moon Jae-in to scrap or renegotiate the deal, saying there isn't much time left for the victims. 
  
  
  
 "This year alone, eight of the victims have passed away," lead organizer Han Kook-yeom said. "The government should not ask them to wait any longer. It should start talks with Japan now." 
  
  
  
 Despite the cold weather, about 500 students and members of civic groups participated in the rally. Some were holding flowers to pay respects to the eight women who died this year. 
  
  
  
 Baek Mi-soon, head of the Korean Women's Association United, spoke each of the eight women's names and said, "We will remember them as human rights activists who fought for the rights of women and all humans." 
  
  
  
 Japan has urged Korea to honor the agreed-upon deal. But the Moon government has said there appears to have been procedural problems. 
  
  
  
 On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told reporters she would talk to the victims and civic groups before making any decision on future talks with Japan. 
  
  
  
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 South Korea's foreign ministry has said a 2015 deal with Japan to compensate forced World War Two sex slaves failed to meet the needs of the victims. 
  
 A panel appointed by the ministry said the deal did not take into account the views of the surviving women. 
  
 The agreement had been made by South Korea's previous government hoping to end decades of diplomatic tensions. 
  
 South Korean activists estimate that up to 200,000 women were forced to work in brothels for WW2 Japanese soldiers. 
  
 Critics have said the deal with Japan was reached without consultation with the survivors - known as "comfort women" - did not contain Japan's acknowledgement of legal responsibility, and did not provide direct compensation to the victims. 
  
 The South Korean government will now review the panel's findings and consult again with victims, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told a news conference. 
  
 The existing agreement "failed to sufficiently reflect a victim-oriented approach, which is the universal standard in resolving human rights issues", she said. 
  
 Money and apologies 
  
 Under the 2015 deal, Japan had apologised and agreed to pay 1bn yen ($8.8m; £6.6m) to a fund for helping the victims. 
  
 The money was to come with an apology by Japan's prime minister and the acceptance of "deep responsibility" for the issue. 
  
 South Korea in turn said it would look into removing the statues symbolising comfort women set up by activists outside Japan's embassy in Seoul and consulate in Busan. 
  
 Activists have installed the statues to draw public attention to the suffering of the women. 
  
 The statues have led to diplomatic tensions between Japan and South Korea as well as other countries where such statues have been erected. 
  
 The majority of the comfort women were from Korea, while others were from China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan. 
  
 Some were willing, others were lured with the offer of paid work as cooks or cleaners and many were forced, a UN report said. ||||| NATIONAL 
  
 The Park Geun-hye administration kept parts of the 2015 Korea-Japan agreement on Japan’s wartime enslavement of Korean women in the dark, a South Korean task force confirmed Wednesday. The administration also pushed the deal despite the pact falling short of fundamentally resolving related issues. 
  
  
  
  
  
 A group of activists address the 2015 "comfort women" agreement outside the Central Government Complex in Seoul on Wednesday. (Yonhap) 
  
 “A victim-centered approach, which has become the norm when it comes to the human rights of women in times of war, was not sufficiently reflected and the deal was reached through give-and-take negotiations like an ordinary diplomatic agenda,” a Foreign Ministry task force review released Wednesday said.The report addresses the controversial agreement signed between the Park government and Tokyo in 2015, which pushed both nations to “finally and irreversibly” put the “comfort women” issue behind them. “Comfort women” is a euphemism for women who were forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during World War II.“The previous administration under former President Park Geun-hye used resolving the comfort women issue as a prerequisite to improving bilateral ties between South Korea and Japan, but its inflexible responses resulted in several burdens,” it added.A team of nine public officials and experts looked into the yearslong negotiations and related procedures in the run-up to the announcement of the accord on Dec. 28, 2015, in a series of 20 meetings held over five months. A comprehensive database of relevant documents were provided by the Foreign Ministry here.The report said that the decision-making power was excessively concentrated in Cheong Wa Dae at the time and the South Korean government was incapable of separating historical issues from security and economic issues, when dealing with the matter. It noted insufficient cooperation and communication between the presidential office and the Foreign Ministry.The task force also confirmed the speculation that the previous government compromised too much and that this was undisclosed to the public to avoid backlash.Among the talks kept in secret, Japan told Seoul to refrain from supporting relevant civic groups disagreeing with the deal and to stop using the phrase “sexual slavery.” It also requested detailed plans regarding “girl statues” installed in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.Japan has often expressed its displeasure over civic groups’ movement to build “girl statues” embodying comfort women across South Korea and in other countries. In response to Japan’s requests to remove the statues, the South Korean government said it had no authority to stop them but vowed to persuade the civic groups through consultation.The South Korean government also leaned toward Japan’s opinion on choosing a phrase to describe the victims and affirmed the official term as “comfort women.”“The undisclosed agreements did not directly block the South Korean government from relocating ‘girl statues’ nor using the expression ‘sexual slavery,’ but provided the Japanese government with an excuse to get involved in matters,” the report said.The task force also said that despite the agreement, the issue remains largely “unresolved,” as the victims have not yet embraced it as a form of apology.South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Wednesday acknowledged a significant lack of communication with “comfort women” victims here, in reaching the agreement.The report also shed light on Japan’s reluctance in acknowledging “legal responsibility,” which the victims and civic groups here view as a sign that Japan is not ready to make a formal apology.Instead, Tokyo made a 1 billion yen ($9 million) financial contribution to a victims’ trust fund created by the agreement as its reparations mechanism, the report noted, but refused to link the money to any legal responsibility.“Following the agreement, Japan has been saying that the fund is not linked to any legal responsibility,” it said.“Several victims and civic groups have said they cannot accept it, as it is not compensation. Thus, unless the issues surrounding ‘responsibility’ is completely resolved, the ‘comfort women’ issue remains fundamentally unresolved even if the victims received the money.”The report said the size of the fund was not set through an “objective standard of calculation” and the task force failed to find records showing that the South Korean government took the victims’ opinions into consideration during negotiations.It said that Japan is refusing to acknowledge formal legal responsibility for its actions because it believes the “comfort women” issue was already resolved through the deal. But acknowledgement of legal responsibility for its crime was one of the key demands of the victims.On the term “irreversible” in the agreement, the task force said South Korea initially used the word to make Japan’s apology more “official,” but it was later distorted in context when Tokyo used it to describe the “comfort women” issue, in subsequent talks.Although it did not make any policy recommendations, the task force advised the government to come up with long-term solutions in dealing with historical issues.“It is difficult to resolve a historical problem such as the comfort women issue through short-term diplomatic negotiations or political compromise. There should be longer-term efforts for the spread of values, awareness and education for future generations.”Kang said in Wednesday’s press briefing that the government will “faithfully” accept the task force results and carefully form a stance on the issue, with South Korea-Japan relations in mind.“Based on the findings, the government will gather opinions of the victims and others involved going forward with a focus to be placed on a victims-centered approach,” Kang said. “In addition, action will be taken carefully in consideration of any impact that it could have on the relations between South Korea and Japan.”President Moon Jae-in in May said he will revisit the deal, and the current administration said it would pursue a two-track approach of separating historical issues from diplomatic ties to Japan.Historians estimate up to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, were forced into sexual slavery. There are currently 32 surviving “comfort women” victims in South Korea.By Jung Min-kyung ( mkjung@heraldcorp.com |||||
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Exactly two years ago, Japan and South Korea agreed that if Japan did what it had promised, the issue of WWII sex slaves—or "comfort women," forced to work in Japanese brothels for soldiers—would be "finally and irreversibly resolved." Maybe not. A panel put together by South Korea's Foreign Ministry to review the deal has determined the agreement doesn't "fundamentally resolve" the issue because the surviving victims' opinions weren't considered. The deal was made under South Korea's previous government, and the current one will now consider the panel's conclusions, says Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, per the BBC. The 2015 deal "failed to sufficiently reflect a victim-oriented approach, which is the universal standard in resolving human rights issues," she said. Per the Korea Times, the fault lies with South Korea and the Park Geun-hye administration, which came to the agreement without consulting survivors. The Korea Herald adds that the investigation confirmed the Park administration kept parts of the deal—regarding the use of the term "sex slaves" and the memorial statues for the women currently located near the Japanese embassy in Seoul—secret. Japan was biting in its response, saying the deal was the product of "legitimate negotiations" and that "if [South Korea] tries to revise the agreement that is already being implemented, that would make Japan’s ties with South Korea unmanageable and it would be unacceptable," Reuters reports. The Herald notes of the estimated 200,000 comfort women, 32 South Korean victims are still alive today. (There was a comfort-women issue at a dinner with President Trump.)