Cho Yoon-sun , South Korea 's Minister of Gender and Equality and Family , said she had been attempting to meet each of her country 's surviving comfort women individually , but had not yet visited Hwang . Hwang Keum-ja died in South Korea , one of the dwindling number of `` comfort women '' Japan forced 200,000 women into sex slavery to service WWII Japanese soldiers . The UN has called for an investigation and a full report on what happened at the end of World War II
Hwang Keum-ja died in South Korea , one of the dwindling number of `` comfort women '' Japan forced 200,000 women into sex slavery to service WWII Japanese soldiers . The UN has called for an investigation and a full report on what happened at the end of World War II