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This photo of Kim Hak-sun was taken on August 4, 1991 at a press conference where she became the first woman to publicly testify about her life as a former ianfu. Inanfu is a Japanese term euphemistically translated as “comfort women” and refers to biologically female people mainly from Korea but also from other Asian countries who were forced into prostitution by the Japanese military in “comfort stations” during World War II became. 2.000 posters, each with 100 photos, show Kim Hak-sun 200.000 times and are a symbolic reminder of the 200.000 people affected, who are usually estimated as the average number in literature. Visitors to the group exhibition “13 Percent”, in which the work was shown, were asked to take as many posters as they wanted from the pile and post them around the city.