Civic group pushes to build monument for 'comfort women' in Singapore

Singapore is expected to be the first Asian country other than South Korea to have a monument built for Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese troops during World War II, a Seoul civic group said Wednesday.

The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery said it is pushing forward with setting up another "Peace Monument," which would be a bronze statue of a young girl that symbolizes the Korean victims, euphemistically called "comfort women," in the Southeast Asian country.