SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean local court has approved the seizure of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s trademark and patent assets, after the Japanese company had refused to heed an earlier order by the South Korean Supreme Court to compensate victims of wartime forced labor, a civic activist group said Monday. The [...]
TOKYO, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Bereaved families of South Koreans who performed forced labor during World War II for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. visited the company’s head office on Friday in Tokyo to urge the company to honor recent South Korean court rulings. In November last year, South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld two rulings [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul appellate court on Friday upheld damages claims by another group of South Koreans forced into wartime labor and ordered a Japanese firm to compensate them. The Seoul High Court retained the lower court’s ruling that ordered the Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to pay 80 million won to 100 million [...]
POHANG, South Korea/Tokyo, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court said Tuesday that it has approved a request by South Korean plaintiffs to seize Korean assets of Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. over Tokyo’s wartime forced labor. The move came as the firm has refused to follow an order by South [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor have filed for an asset seizure against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSM) as the Japanese firm has not carried out the top court’s order to compensate them. A legal counsel representing the four victims and their descendants has recently asked a [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A coalition of South Korean civic groups on Thursday reaffirmed its pledge to erect a statue in front of the Japanese Consulate in South Korea’s second-largest city of Busan next year to commemorate Korean who suffered forced labor under Japan’s colonial rule. Members of the coalition, including the Busan [...]
GWANGJU, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A regional appellate court ruled Wednesday that Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. must compensate Korean victims of wartime forced labor for their unpaid work, adding to a recent series of rulings in favor of the victims. The Gwangju High Court upheld the lower court decision for three elderly defendants, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court confirmed two appellate court rulings on Thursday that ordered a Japanese company to compensate Koreans for forced labor during World War II. The four-judge bench handed down the decisions on two damages suits against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. It upheld two rulings — one that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Following a court ruling that ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay damages to four Korean victims who were forced into labor during the Japanese colonial era, the Japanese government has responded strongly, completely shaking up Korea-Japan relations. Japanese government officials have been continuously releasing resolute statements [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Lawyers representing forced labor victims who won a case at Korea’s Supreme Court for their past misery paid a visit to the head office of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSM), the Japanese company that was ordered to pay damages, in Tokyo, Japan only to have the door [...]