SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a Vietnamese national seeking compensation from South Korea’s government after losing family members and suffering wounds when South Korean marines killed dozens of civilians in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The Seoul Central District Court’s ruling marks the first time [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 60-year-old Vietnamese woman has sued the South Korean government for damages over her family’s suffering during the Vietnam War, a local lawyers’ group said Tuesday. Lawyers for a Democratic Society, an organization of progressive lawyers, dubbed Minbyun in Korean, said that it filed the first-ever compensation lawsuit by [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Two U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a bill that seeks to grant federal health care to Korean Americans who served in the Vietnam War. The bill, dubbed the Korean American Vietnam Allies Long Overdue for Relief (VALOR) Act, was introduced by Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Gilbert Cisneros, Jr. [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A renowned former Supreme Court justice has called on South Korea to acknowledge its involvement in the Vietnam War. Kim Young-ran, who proposed the Kim Young-ran Act, a self-titled anti-graft bill, said, “I want to prove that our country can acknowledge its own wrongdoings and is more than capable of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A civil tribunal will be held in South Korea next year to find the truth about the alleged civilian massacres committed by South Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s to early 1970s, its organizing committee said Tuesday. A committee of lawyers and experts said the [...]
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A statue erected Wednesday in the city of Seogwipo on Jeju island, or “Island of Peace,” commemorates victims of the Vietnam War, namely women and children killed by South Korean troops who fought on side of South Vietnam. The monument was named “Vietnamese Pieta,” and depicts [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of civilian victims from the Vietnam War participated in a rally in Korea, which was held to push for a resolution of the sex slave issue between Korea and Japan, on April 8 in front of the Japanese Embassy in Jongno, Seoul. Nguyên Thi Thanh, who [...]