( ) -v-36- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “std.” South Korea’s top court has ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor. Correspondent Jeremy House has more on the story. [CutID: <Cuts> SOKOR-JAPAN-house-v-THUam.mp3 Time: 36s Title: SOKOR-JAPAN-house-v-THUam Out-cue: std] —————————- VERBATIM: South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled that Mitsubishi […]
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20th century conflict between South Korea and Japan is at crux of court ruling
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South Korea’s top court has ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor. Correspondent Jeremy House has more on the story.
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VERBATIM: South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Nippon Steel Corp. must give compensation to a total of 11 workers who were forced to work for the companies during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The ruling is in line with the court’s contentious 2018 verdicts that caused a huge setback in relations between the two countries. Observers say the ruling won’t likely hurt bilateral ties much because Seoul and Tokyo have been pushing hard to bolster their partnerships in the face of shared challenges…JH reporting.