Created by artists Kim Seo-Kyung and Kim Eun-Sung, the Statue of the Girl for Peace commemorates the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, often euphemistically called "comfort women," during the Asia-Pacific War from the early 1930s to 1945. An estimated 200,000 young girls and women from colonized and occupied regions were subjected to brutal exploitation. The original statue was installed in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul in 2011, marking the 1,000th Wednes