Korea and Japan will hold their first working-level talks on the so-called comfort women issue in Seoul, on Wednesday.
At the upcoming talks, Korea is expected to reiterate its demand for an official apology and legal compensation from the Japanese government for its wartime sexual slavery of Korean women.
Japan claims the issue was resolved through a 1965 treaty, when the two countries normalized diplomatic ties.
Wednesday's meeting is the result of an agreement reached ahead of a trilateral summit in the Hague between South Korea, Japan and the United States, last month.
Around 200-thousand women, mostly Korean, were forced to serve the Japanese army in comfort stations in the early 20th century.
