Standing firm: Students staging a sit-in protest against a recent agreement between South Korea and Japan near a statue of a teenage girl symbolising former ‘comfort women’ in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. — AFP
SEOUL: A landmark deal between South Korea and Japan to end a decades-old feud over wartime sex slaves is struggling to overcome a diminutive but daunting obstacle in the form of the small statue of a teenage girl.
“I am here to defend the peace monument,” 22-year-old Jung Woo-ryung defiantly declared, as she stood guard on Tuesday beside the seated bronze figure that was erected on the pavement opposite the Japanese embassy in Seoul in 2011.
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