SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will integrate databases on Koreans conscripted as forced labor or soldiers during Japan’s colonial rule, the National Archives of Korea (NAK) said Monday. At present, the databases containing lists of Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor and military conscription are spread among several state institutions, including [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean nongovernmental organization said Thursday it will begin a campaign against Japan over its latest refusal to recognize the existence of forced labor at some of its past industrial complexes listed as world heritage sites. In 2015, Japan promised to acknowledge and commemorate Korean victims of forced [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s parliamentary speaker is preparing a bill to create a fund to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor with contributions by firms, governments and citizens of both nations, officials said Wednesday. The bill, pushed by National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang, is to build a 300 billion-won (US$255 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan implemented research on the extent of Korean labor resources on the Korean Peninsula that could be forcibly taken overseas during World War II as part of its war efforts, according to documents released by the National Archives of Korea on Thursday. The Japanese Government General of Korea sent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of people, including victims of Japan’s forced labor during World War II, held rallies in Seoul on Wednesday demanding Tokyo’s apology, marking the first anniversary of a landmark ruling that soured ties between the two countries. On Oct. 30 last year, the Supreme Court here upheld a 2013 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A video that introduces the victims of forced labor during Japanese rule is going viral on social media, moving the hearts of netizens around the world. The video begins with a famous quote from Good Will Hunting, a popular film that talks about a man who overcomes his hurtful [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan should try to resolve a deepening row with South Korea by returning to its previous acknowledgement that individual claims to damages for wartime forced labor were not fully addressed by the 1965 normalization treaty between the two countries, a former Japanese leader said Thursday. Former Prime Minister Yukio [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of South Koreans staged a rally in downtown Seoul on Thursday to call for Tokyo to apologize for wartime forced labor, as they marked the 74th anniversary of their country’s liberation from Japan. An estimated 2,000 people from some 10 local civic groups gathered at Seoul Plaza with [...]
GWANGJU, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic group supporting Korean victims of wartime forced labor on Tuesday filed an application with a local court against Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to order the sale of the Japanese firm’s assets seized in South Korea. The civic group announced the move against the Japanese firm at [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Four more victims of wartime forced labor and several other surviving families filed damage suits with a South Korean court Thursday against Japanese companies, the first to be added since the Supreme Court rulings in favor of the victims. The fresh eight cases come with claims by a total [...]