S Korean wartime forced labor plaintiff receives gov't compensation

It makes complete sense since under the 1965 Treaty, Japan paid money for "Korean individuals who suffered". Actutally Japan wanted to pay the individials directly but South Korea preferred it be paid to their government for eventual distribution. However the South Korean government used that money for other things like infrastructure; highways, a dam and to establish Pohang Steel works (POSCO).

"In January 2005, the South Korean government disclosed 1,200 pages of diplomatic documents that recorded the proceeding of the treaty. The documents, kept secret for 40 years, recorded that the Japanese government actually proposed to the South Korean government to directly compensate individual victims but it was the South Korean government which insisted that it would handle individual compensation to its citizens and then received the whole amount of grants on behalf of the victims"

Yang obviously changed his position since at 94 years of age he can't wait much further, and the tide has changed in SK-JPN relations, making payment by the Japanese companies themselves in the near future all the more unlikely.

"....but it was the South Korean government which insisted that it would handle individual compensation to its citizens and then received the whole amount of grants on behalf of the victims" Name the South Korean government at the time.

Can you forgive the statements made by her support group and lawyers, claiming that she may now have dementia, after she had adamantly refused to resolve the issue with funds from the foundation?

It's exactly the same as continuously using the excuse that the testimony of self-proclaimed comfort women change each time due to old age and unclear memory."

KabukiloverToday  02:18 pm JST

"....but it was the South Korean government which insisted that it would handle individual compensation to its citizens and then received the whole amount of grants on behalf of the victims" Name the South Korean government at the time.

The government of the Republic of Korea. Same as it is today.