>Friction likely as Korean court orders Nippon Steel to compensate WWII workers Hyonhee Shin
>SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea’s top court ruled on Tuesday Japan’s Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. should compensate four South Koreans for their forced labour during World War Two, a decision that could freeze ties between the uneasy neighbours.
>Nippon Steel said the verdict was “deeply regrettable” and that it would review it before taking any next steps. Japan’s Foreign Ministry said it would summon the South Korean ambassador.
>In a landmark ruling, South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld a 2013 order for the company to pay 100 million won ($87,700) to each of the four steel workers who initiated the suit in 2005, seeking compensation and unpaid wages.
>The court ruled that the former labourers’ right to reparation was not terminated by a 1965 treaty normalising diplomatic ties, rejecting the claim by Tokyo and Japanese courts, Yonhap news agency said.
>Japan and South Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan’s 35-year occupation of the Korean peninsula until 1945 and the use of comfort women, Japan’s euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
>Japan’s Foreign Ministry told Reuters that the issue of compensation was “settled completely and finally” by the 1965 deal.
>Japan’s Foreign Ministry told Reuters that the issue of compensation was “settled completely and finally” by the 1965 deal.
>Japan’s Foreign Ministry told Reuters that the issue of compensation was “settled completely and finally” by the 1965 deal.
gook job is victim business. this year gook economy become worse. So gook need money. many Rapist and prostitute look for job in japan. gook look for job in Germany
> WWII ended more than seven decades ago > most of the Koreans who were even born before 1945 are slready dead > same with Japanese > Koreans still want gibs > there are people who think it's justified
Ethan Davis
Their previous president's chief advisor was a fortune teller, btw.
Julian Miller
yeah and the whole world was acting like their new president would bring a complete change to korean politics. it's literally the exact same stuff, except now it's done by a leftist government
Parker Cook
kek, why do gooks turn everything into a creepy cult? If you think our various protestant/non-denom sects are batshit insane, you clearly haven't heard anything about theirs.
