A declaration on independence dating back to that period was read out.

Diverse events including painting show denouncing sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army took place.

Victims of the sexual slavery are dying without getting apology or reparation from Japan, speakers said.

The bitter pain suffered by Koreans under the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists is still going on, they deplored.

They said the young people would pool their efforts to carry forward the fighting spirit of the ancestors with which they shouted the hurrah for independence to defend the sovereignty of the country