[1] In September 2020 Yoon was suspended from the Democratic Party after being indicted by the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office on eight charges including fraud, embezzlement and breach of trust for misappropriating donations and government subsidies from the comfort women advocacy organization she was leading.
[6] Since January 1992, the council has organized over 1000 weekly rallies in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul to raise awareness of the issue of war violence against women.
[13][14] A 2016 follow-up, 25 Years of Wednesdays (25 년간의 수요일), included information on the new agreement between the Korean and Japanese governments to peacefully resolve the issue.
[5] Yoon appears in The Apology, a documentary film directed by Tiffany Hsiung and featuring former comfort women Gil Won-Ok, Adela Reyes Barroquillo, and Cao Hei Mao.
[19] In a press conference, Lee Yong-soo accused Yoon and her organization of financially and politically exploiting the survivors for 30 years.