S Korean court rejects damages suit filed by ex-'comfort women'

What a stupid lawsuit. Chong Dae Hyup busy at work trying to take control of South Korea-Japan relations away from the South Korean government.

Why don't they sue the South Korean government for not distributing the 800 million received from Japan from the 1i965 Treaty? That money was suppose to go to Korean "individuals who suffered".

"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."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea

Good decision by the court.

This suit was baseless.

The last paragraph just about sums up the mentality of the anti-Japan nationalists. In order to keep their irrational hatred of all things Japan alive, they'll use the comfort women issue to forever minimize anything and everything the Japanese government has done to apologize and compensate the comfort women. The 2015 agreement wasn't even the first time the comfort women were offered compensation and apologies (Asian Women's Fund among others).

At the time the 2015 agreement was made and announced, I had accurately predicted that give or take a year or so, the revisionists will claim that Japan has 'never' apologized for its past. No matter what the Japanese government ever does, it will never be good enough for them ("The Prime Minister of Japan did not get on his knees in front comfort women to beg and grovel for forgiveness, so it is not a 'true' apology").

Have they received any money from the $8.8 million paid in 2015? Can't oppose the 2015 deal while trying to get paid from the settlement too.