Former comfort woman remembered by The New York Times nearly 20 years after her death

You can watch this video at Last week, The New York Times published the obituary of a Korean woman who died at the age of 73 on December 16, 1997. But why now and who was this woman? Well, the Times is now publishing a series of obituaries about people it considers “remarkable,” whose deaths went unreported at the time – and thus Kim Hak-soon’s story has gained global recognition.