More than 120 former prostitutes who worked near a US military base in South Korea are going to court to seek compensation from the Korean government. They say the authorities actively facilitated their work - and that the system has left them in poverty now that they are old. For as long as armies have gathered in garrisons, ramshackle "camp-towns" have grown up around them. In South Korea, they
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