SEOUL — The South Korean presidential office has vehemently opposed an internal plan to set up a fund to support people who were requisitioned from the…
SEOUL — The South Korean presidential office has vehemently opposed an internal plan to set up a fund to support people who were requisitioned from the Korean Peninsula by Japanese companies to work in Japan during World War II, the Chosun Ilbo has reported.
The major South Korean daily reported Saturday that the country’s diplomatic authority had made a proposal to the Blue House that Seoul swiftly resolve the wartime labor issue by establishing such a fund jointly with not only the Japanese companies concerned, but also with South Korean firms that benefited from an accord to settle property claims that was signed along with the 1965 Japan-South Korea treaty to establish diplomatic relations.
