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yoshi
Please implement the agreement. It's the decision of your county's resume even if your former president is in jail, isn't it?
Bugle Boy of Company B
Good news!
Thunderbird2
They don't accept apologies and they don't want money... what DO they want?
kwatt
Most victims and many families had compensation money given by Japan. However S Korea closed the foundation arbitrarily with Japan's consent. That's also why Japan can't trust this country.
kwatt
correction:
However S Korea closed the foundation arbitrarily withOUT Japan's consent. That's also why Japan can't trust this country.
Only_In_Japan
Something tells me that none of the remaining 5 million dollars will ever see its way to the victims... Nor will it be "refunded" back to Japan.
SK, stop playing these retarded, old, pathetic games. Move on!
vinarius@pm.catv.ne.jp
Bully people with Japanese money. Sad.
Reese
I politely beg to differ. That bad word "quotas" for: college admissions, college scholarships and grants, public company hiring, Federal and State government hiring, etc. etc. etc. All this for people who never experienced the segregation or slavery but benefit immensely from it from ancestors they never knew. It never ends.
Dango bong
time to stop being petulant and move on, Korea....
JustMyThoughts
This article just referred to the imprisonment and rape of women as ''The dispute over the compensation for wartime work..'', come'on... the problem is being reported, why can't peoole see it. People who have been injured want to be seen. This is not a labor dispute.
albaleo
The "compensation for wartime work" was in reference to a separate matter from the issue of sexual slavery. Read the final two paragraphs.
oldman_13
Of course the anti-Japan crowd would want this whole matter to be closed, dissolved, buried a 1000 feet deep, and erased from the history books.
Never mind those women who took the compensation.
This does NOT fit with the narrative by the anti-Japan crowd that Japan has 'never' apologized or compensated the victims of its wartime and colonial past.
Truly, truly ironic that the anti-Japan crowd engage in the very tactics they accuse Japan of engaging in, whitewashing history.
Grow up!
alwaysspeakingwisdom
Well, the Korean government took Japan's money, gave some out to those who asked for it or didn't die in the meantime, greased the pockets of the "employees" of the "fund" with a generous severance and won't return a single cent to the Japanese government. And people wonder why Japan won't deal with south korea.
showchinmono
Funny no one mentioned so far, at the same time as dissolving the fund for "finally and irreversibly"
settling the issue without Japan's consent, SK government is proposing to Japan setting up another fund to settle another issue. And even making it a condition for bilateral talk to solve the issue.
How could anyone blame Japan for judging this helpless neighbor untrustworthy.
Samit Basu
@showchinmono
Major differences.
-Comfort women's compensation fund was 100% funded by Japanese government, holding Japanese government liable.
-Forced laborer compensation fund has 0% Japanese government fund, it would seek funding only from both Japanese and Korean private businesses.