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![People look at a 'comfort woman' statue, symbolizing Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery by the imperial Japanese army during World War II, erected in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 27. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10397670.jpg?imageId=10397670&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
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![University students tie themselves to a statue symbolizing ’comfort women“ victims in front of the old Japanese Embassy in central Seoul Wednesday and stage a sit-in protest after the organizers of weekly rallies to resolve the issue of Japanese wartime sexual slavery lost their usual turf to a conservative group. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11067097.jpg?imageId=11067097&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)