SEOUL - Two elderly South Korean victims of wartime forced labour took to the streets in wheelchairs on Tuesday (March 7), saying they rejected a compensation deal announced this week, potentially complicating Seoul's efforts to end a diplomatic spat with Japan. Under President Yoon Suk-yeol's plan, South Korea would compensate former forced labourers through an existing public foundation funded by...
Kim Seong-ju, a survivor of forced labour under Japan's 1910-1945 colonial occupation, leaves after a protest denouncing the government plan to resolve a dispute over compensating forced labor victims, at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on March 7, 2023.
The two women, Yang Geum-deok and Kim Sung-joo, both now aged 95, worked at a Mitsubishi Heavy aircraft factory in Nagoya, Japan when they were teens during World War II. Relations plunged to their lowest point in decades after South Korea's Supreme Court in 2018 ordered Japanese firms to pay reparations to former forced labourers. Fifteen South Koreans have won such cases, but none has been compensated.Japan has said the matter was settled under a 1965 treaty and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Monday his government's stance had not changed.
After Japan lost the war in 1945, they returned home but didn't get paid for their 17-month-long labour stint.
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