SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 60 percent of South Koreans are against the government’s plan to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor on its own without involving Japanese firms, a poll showed Friday. In the poll of 1,002 adults conducted by Gallup Korea on Wednesday and Thursday, 59 percent said they oppose [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On August 13, 2019, a special episode of “You Quiz on the Block,” a popular Korean talk show and quiz program, was aired to commemorate Liberation Day and convey the heart-wrenching experiences of Korean patriots who suffered during the independence movement and Japanese colonial period. The show’s hosts, Yoo [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea launched a government-private consultative body Monday tasked with exploring ways to resolve the long-standing diplomatic row with Japan about compensation for the Korean victims of wartime forced labor, a sticking point in their relations. First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong presided over the inaugural session of the [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A sculptor couple, known for their “comfort women” statue representing wartime sex slaves, has won a libel suit against an internet media operator who claimed another of the couple’s sculpture representing forced labor victims was modeled after a Japanese man. The Seoul Western District Court ordered the head of [...]
GWANGJU, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of registered surviving South Korean victims of wartime forced labor in Japan decreased by 585 for the past year, data showed Monday. A civic group unveiled government statistics on medical assistance provided to people who were conscripted to work in Japan during World War II. The data [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday ruled against South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor in a damages suit filed against Japanese companies, apparently on grounds that the cases’ statute of limitations has expired. The suit was filed against Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Kumagai Gumi Co. by [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court has dismissed a second appeal filed by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries against an order to sell patent rights the company has in South Korea to compensate a victim of wartime forced labor, according to legal sources Tuesday. The top court dismissed Mitsubishi Heavy’s appeal against the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court on Thursday ordered the sale of a Japanese steel company’s assets here to compensate wartime forced labor victims in the second ruling of its kind. The Daegu District Court’s Pohang branch ordered Nippon Steel Corp. to sell off its securities of PNR, a joint venture [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea called Tuesday for Japan’s retraction of a push to list a former mine linked to wartime forced labor as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, calling it “very deplorable.” Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs has reportedly been pushing to register the Sado mine on the coveted list where [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top court has confirmed a lower court’s order to seize Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s assets here to compensate wartime forced labor victims, judicial officials said Monday. The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the Japanese company’s appeal of a court order to seize its six patent rights and [...]