South Korea says its companies will compensate people forced to work under Japan's 1910-1945 occupation. Its government is seeking to end a dispute that has undercut U.S.-led efforts to present a unified front against China and North Korea.
Disagreements over labour and women forced into brothels have long bedevilled ties between 2 countriesPeople pass by a statue symbolizing forced Korean workers, in Seoul on Monday. South Korea says it’ll raise local civilian funds to compensate Koreans who won damages in lawsuits against Japanese companies that enslaved them during the Second World War.
Under the plan, South Korea would compensate former forced labourers through an existing public foundation funded by private-sector companies, Foreign Minister Park Jin told a briefing. In a statement, Biden said the announcements were a "a groundbreaking new chapter of co-operation and partnership between two of the United States' closest allies" and a "critical step to forge a future for the Korean and Japanese people that is safer, more secure, and more prosperous."Relations plunged to their lowest point in decades after South Korea's Supreme Court in 2018 ordered Japanese firms to pay reparations to former forced labourers.
The South Korea proposal was welcomed in Tokyo but faced immediate backlash from some victims and South Korea's main opposition party, who accused the government of capitulating to Japan."Today's humiliating resolution is a result of consistently low posture towards the Japanese government," representatives of some of the victims said at a separate event.
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