A victim of Japan's wartime sex slavery has died of natural causes at 91, reducing to 50 the number of surviving victims.
  

Only 238 women have been registered with the South Korean government as former sex slaves, though historians estimate more than 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, were enslaved by the Japanese during the war.
  

Kim Dal-seon passed away at 9:15 p.m. Thursday at a hospital in her hometown of Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, her family said Friday.
  

Kim was kidnapped by the Japanese police at age 19 while selling fish at a market with her mother.
  

She was sent to one of the front-line brothels in Myanmar, where she was subject to routine sexual assault. She later had to undergo uterine surgery twice.
  

In 1945, when the Japanese surrendered to the Allied Forces, she took the last boat back to Busan, where she stayed for two years because she was too sick to make her way back to Pohang.
  

She finally married at age 50, after years of poverty from selling just fish and vegetables. Her brothers all died in the 1950-53 Korean War.
  

Kim's death came less than 30 minutes after the passing of another former sex slave Thursday.
  

Kim Oi-hwan died of a chronic illness at a hospital in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, just southeast of Seoul, said the House of Sharing, a shelter for former sex slaves. (Yonhap)