Former South Korean "comfort woman" Lee Ok-sun speaks during an interview with Reuters at the House of Sharing in Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, May 4, 2021. Picture taken May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Heo Ran
SEOUL (Reuters) - Fighting disease, death and disillusionment, members of South Korea’s rapidly dwindling sisterhood of surviving "comfort women" say they are facing the twilight of their lives with diminished camaraderie and will to wage political battles.
Only 14 of the 240 registered survivors of Japan's wartime brothels are still alive in South Korea, nearly half the number who were alive just three years ago.
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