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Former S. Korean comfort woman dies in Arizona, leaving 47 still alive

August 10, 2015
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The number of registered comfort women, 238, has dwindled by eight this year. (Yonhap)

A former South Korean comfort woman died in her son’s Arizona home last Friday, leaving the number of registered comfort women remaining alive to 47.

Park Yoo-nyun, 93, had been in the hospital for an extended period due to flooding in her lungs and chest. Her last two weeks were spent inside her son’s house, according to the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan War.

Park was born in 1922 in South Korea. At age 19, she went with a friend to Busan and, tricked by a promise that she could make good money working as a nurse for Japanese soldiers, ended up in Japan forced to work as a sex slave with six other Korean women.

The number of registered comfort women, 238, has dwindled by eight this year.