A South Korean court ruled Tuesday that Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries should pay compensation to former wartime slave workers. The district court in the southern city of Gwangju ruled Mitsubishi Heavy Industries should pay 120 million won ($106,700) in compensation to Kim Young-Ok…
A South Korean court ruled Tuesday that Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries should pay compensation to former wartime slave workers.
The district court in the southern city of Gwangju ruled Mitsubishi Heavy Industries should pay 120 million won ($106,700) in compensation to Kim Young-Ok, 85, and 3.25 million won to a relative of late victim Choe Jeong-Rye, activists said.
It is the second such ruling in four years.
The Korean peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule from 1910-45, when Koreans were banned from using their own language at schools and forced to adopt Japanese names.
Hundreds of thousands of Koreans were forcibly recruited as frontline troops, slave workers and wartime sex slaves known as comfort women.
