Yun Byung-se, South Korean foreign minister, said on Monday his government would try to resolve the issue by holding talks with the private group that erected the statue.
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Japan offered an apology and payment of one billion yen (S$11.4 million) to the 46 surviving South Korean women under a landmark agreement which both nations described as “final and irreversible”.
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Former South Korean “comfort woman” Kim Bok-dong (L) holds hands with an activist speech during a weekly protest in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea demanding for an apology and compensation from the Japanese government, July 22, 2015.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, saying he was remorseful for all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences more than 70 years ago.
On Monday the Republic of Korea and Japan reached an agreement to “finally and irreversibly” address the tragic treatment of “comfort women” during World War II.
A South Korean official later denied Japanese news reports that Seoul agreed to relocate a statue symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery in exchange for compensation for the women.
My mother, a Dutch woman, Jan Ruff O’Herne, was a former “comfort woman” in Java in 1944.
Hundreds of South Koreans people gathered in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul to hold a “Wednesday rally” that has been staged every week for more than 20 years.
The shrine honours millions of Japan’s war dead, including several senior military and political figures convicted of war crimes after World War II, and visits by high-profile figures anger wartime adversaries China and South Korea.
More than 2000 Taiwanese women were allegedly forced into sexual slavery by the occupying army during the war and only 58 of them came forward to ask for compensation according to the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation.
The task force meeting is expected to be joined by government officials, and representatives from local non-governmental organization that focus on the issue and surviving Taiwanese comfort women, in order to come up with a clear stance.
In South Korea, the victims and their supporters have been sharply critical, but the general public seems more willing to accept the deal.
David Straub, former director of the State Department’s Korea Desk, said the deal would ease tensions between the two allies of the United States if it was fully implemented.
“If we brushed aside this deal, the comfort women issue would remain unresolved forever”, said Lee Won Deog, director of Institute of Japanese Studies at Seoul’s Kookmin University.
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But several South Korean government sources said no promise was made about removing the statue during negotiations leading up to the December 28 agreement.
