Lee Yong-su, left, a former South Korean sex slave who was forced to serve for the Japanese military in WW II, watches a statue symbolizing sex slaves during the funeral ceremony for another sexual slavery victim Kim Bok-dong in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday near the embassy for the funeral of Kim forced as a girl into a brothel and sexually enslaved by the Japanese military in WWII. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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