SEOUL - A group of South Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labour accused Seoul of rushing a compensation plan with Tokyo for diplomatic and political gains, amid a prolonged legal battle over the neighbours' chequered history. The two countries have been odds over a 2018 ruling by South Korea's Supreme Court that ordered Japanese firms to compensate some of...
South Korean relatives of workers killed in a disaster at the Chosei coal mine, sort out ancestral tablets for the victims at a temple in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan on Feb 4, 2023.SEOUL - A group of South Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labour accused Seoul of rushing a compensation plan with Tokyo for diplomatic and political gains, amid a prolonged legal battle over the neighbours' chequered history.
"For public reasons they're saying the victims are old and the issue has not been resolved for too long, but I think they're pushing to normalise relations with Japan by ending the dispute and make it a political legacy," Lim told a news conference in Seoul. "In any case, it would bring another lengthy legal battle ... and they wouldn't be able to get the outcome according to the schedule they might have set," Lim said.Yang Geum-deok, who said she was coaxed by a Japanese educator to go to Japan at age 14 and forced to work for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, said she will never take any money without an apology.
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