Seoul has announced it will consider a domestic fund to compensate South Koreans enslaved by Japanese companies before the end of World War II. However victims are angry the money is not coming from Japan.
Victims have also demanded the Japanese companies issue an apology over their ordeals.Ties between the US and its Asian allies have long been complicated by grievances related to Japan's brutal rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945, when hundreds of thousands of Koreans were mobilised as forced labourers for Japanese companies or sex slaves at Tokyo's wartime brothels.
He met with Japanese PM Fumio Kishida in Cambodia in November, in the first bilateral summit between the countries in three years, where they expressed a commitment to swiftly resolve "pending" bilateral issues, which clearly referred to the forced-labour dispute. She said it would be "impossible" to make the Japanese companies apologise for the broad forced-labour issue.
Shim Kyu-sun, the foundation's chairman, said payments could be funded by South Korean firms which benefited from Japanese economic assistance when the companies normalised their ties in the 1960s, including steel giant POSCO.
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