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© Thomson Reuters 2024.S Korea forced labor victim gets compensation from Japanese firm
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Asiaman7
Their country, their rules.
dagon
Congratulations and a long time coming. And a travesty that he is the first.
More corporate assets should be seized and forfeited to benefit the victims of corporate malfeasance.
Bows and apologies are insufficient.
kurisupisu
It’s extremely regrettable that Japanese companies resorted to ‘slavery’ too!
Pacificpilot
Not even a word of apology, or an act of contrition from these Zaibatsu conglomerates who are hiding behind a treaty. Show some humanity or these protests will never die.
2020 vision
The Japanese government already made reparations with the 1965 treaty. Instead of compensating the victims, the Korean government poured the money into the chaebol. The victims should be complaining to the Korean government, not the Japanese.
Peter14
The cost for lawyers to defend the case must be a hundred times more than the compensation asked for. Logically they should have simply paid the pittance and made a public apology and used it as a positive media event to gain sales in South Korea, which would have cost less than a media campaign, and would recoup their payout in weeks.
Instead they get bad publicity in South Korea by fighting this for years. A horrible decision by the company concerned, and by the others also spending millions of dollars to fight a payout of a few thousand dollars. Just pay up and be done with it. You use slave labor and get caught doing it, you need to pay compensation. We would all expect it if it was us that had been the slave labor. Time does not dilute the crime.
Angel Uresti
All this is just politicians from both sides using the victims to their own benefit. But one point is true, I have never see a honest declaration of the Japanese government assuming the guilty and asking forgiveness. The Japanese goverment keep trying to buring the history and left just the part where they are the victim. Learn from their ally of the time Germany.