SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Thursday ruled in favor of the government and dismissed a compensation suit filed by South Koreans who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings in Japan. The Seoul Southern District Court turned down the suit filed by 230 victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, [...]
SEOUL/HAPCHEON, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean victims of the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Thursday demanded an apology and compensation from both the United States and Japan. “Nuclear bombs were dropped and Koreans in Japan at the time were victims,” a shelter for [...]
TOKYO, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines has said it will compensate all passengers aboard its flight that skidded off the runway at a Japanese airport last week. South Korea’s second-largest flag carrier said on its Japanese website in a Saturday post that passengers who were on board Asiana flight OZ162 from Seoul to Hiroshima in [...]