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Yeolchae
Joined: 24 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:04 am Post subject: Compensation approved for Korean Victims of Japan |
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http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2006091384428
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The bereaved families of forced draftees and laborers under Japanese colonial rule will receive 20 million won per person starting from the second half of next year.
Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook presided over a Cabinet meeting on September 12, in which the Cabinet voted for a �compensation bill for forced draftees and laborers during the Japanese colonial rule.�
The bill states that each family member of a soldier, a laborer, and a military serviceman who were mobilized abroad and then who either died or went missing during the 36 years of Japanese imperial rule will receive 20 million won.
Those who received 300,000 won in compensation from the government in 1975 will be entitled to 17.66 million won (300,000 won in 1975 is now worth 2.34 million won).
Injured persons and their families will be entitled to reparations of less than 20 million won per person, and those who were drafted but survived will be given up to 500,000 won for medical expenses annually till death. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| Seems a step in the right direction. It will be interesting to see the Korean reaction to this. Hopefully this will lead to better relations between the two countries. It is in both countries economic interests. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| Uuugggghhhhhh.... this has nothing to do with Japan. Isn't it the Korean government giving them the money? |
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Yeolchae
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:49 am Post subject: |
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Oops. The Korean government is compensating them.
When I went to Nagasaki on holidays I remember seeing at the Atomic bomb memorial museum that 10,000 Koreans died there. Most of them were in the fields working when the bomb exploded at 11:02 AM
I know Japan gave compensation to comfort women in 1964 that was promptly confiscated by the Korean government. Has Japan compensated Koreans for the forced labour? Hopefully this will encourage them to do so. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| Unless I'm mistaken, I thought compensation issues with Japan were resolved in 1968, when Park Choong-hee basically took a lump sum in return for a cessation of individual claims against Japan. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: |
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I guess we were both wrong. It was 1965. Here is an article on the subject:
In January, declassified dossiers relating to the Korea-Japan Normalization Treaty of 1965 opened the first old wound. It was
China Business Big Picture
the first disclosure to the Korean public; it revealed that Seoul demanded US$364 million compensation for individuals who died, were injured or used as laborers during Japan's 35-year occupation on the Korean peninsula. Instead, the South Korean government received $800 million, in a combination of grants and low-interest loans, as reparations from Japan.
South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee agreed that after this payment, South Korean citizens would give up their right to make individual claims against the Japanese government. What the declassified documents revealed was that Park only paid out about 2.56 billion won ($251 million) to families killed by the Japanese and 6.6 billion won to owners of destroyed property. None of the thousands of South Koreans conscripted into the Japanese military and labor workforce received compensation.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GL23Dg02.html |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| Why is it that every time Koreans claim to get screwed over, in the end, it just ends up being a smoke screen for their own moral vacuum? |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| Why is it that every time Koreans claim to get screwed over, in the end, it just ends up being a smoke screen for their own moral vacuum? |
Because they sit around an old, wooden table in a small, dark room full of smoke with one light bulb hanging from the ceiling, plotting ways to screw people over.
Like these guys!:
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
I guess we were both wrong. It was 1965. Here is an article on the subject:
In January, declassified dossiers relating to the Korea-Japan Normalization Treaty of 1965 opened the first old wound. It was
China Business Big Picture
the first disclosure to the Korean public; it revealed that Seoul demanded US$364 million compensation for individuals who died, were injured or used as laborers during Japan's 35-year occupation on the Korean peninsula. Instead, the South Korean government received $800 million, in a combination of grants and low-interest loans, as reparations from Japan.
South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee agreed that after this payment, South Korean citizens would give up their right to make individual claims against the Japanese government. What the declassified documents revealed was that Park only paid out about 2.56 billion won ($251 million) to families killed by the Japanese and 6.6 billion won to owners of destroyed property. None of the thousands of South Koreans conscripted into the Japanese military and labor workforce received compensation.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GL23Dg02.html |
So he keeps millions of dollars from his people who rightly deserve it, yet Koreans still call Park Chung-hee a hero. Go figure. |
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indiercj
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| Guri Guy wrote: |
I guess we were both wrong. It was 1965. Here is an article on the subject:
In January, declassified dossiers relating to the Korea-Japan Normalization Treaty of 1965 opened the first old wound. It was
China Business Big Picture
the first disclosure to the Korean public; it revealed that Seoul demanded US$364 million compensation for individuals who died, were injured or used as laborers during Japan's 35-year occupation on the Korean peninsula. Instead, the South Korean government received $800 million, in a combination of grants and low-interest loans, as reparations from Japan.
South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee agreed that after this payment, South Korean citizens would give up their right to make individual claims against the Japanese government. What the declassified documents revealed was that Park only paid out about 2.56 billion won ($251 million) to families killed by the Japanese and 6.6 billion won to owners of destroyed property. None of the thousands of South Koreans conscripted into the Japanese military and labor workforce received compensation.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GL23Dg02.html |
So he keeps millions of dollars from his people who rightly deserve it, yet Koreans still call Park Chung-hee a hero. Go figure. |
Some, but not all. If you want to call them stupid then I am with you on this one. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
| Unless I'm mistaken, I thought compensation issues with Japan were resolved in 1968, when Park Choong-hee basically took a lump sum in return for a cessation of individual claims against Japan. |
That's the thing. The Korean government signed away every Korean's right to sue Japan for some cash, which they then handed to the chaebols. A minority got super rich and the Korean government let women protest outside of the Japanese embassy for years, allowing them to think they'd ever have a chance of getting compensation but knowing all the time they were sitting on a secret treaty.
It's about time the Korean government decided to disperse some of the riches earned on the suffering of its citizens. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Smee wrote: |
| Unless I'm mistaken, I thought compensation issues with Japan were resolved in 1968, when Park Choong-hee basically took a lump sum in return for a cessation of individual claims against Japan. |
That's the thing. The Korean government signed away every Korean's right to sue Japan for some cash, which they then handed to the chaebols. A minority got super rich and the Korean government let women protest outside of the Japanese embassy for years, allowing them to think they'd ever have a chance of getting compensation but knowing all the time they were sitting on a secret treaty.
It's about time the Korean government decided to disperse some of the riches earned on the suffering of its citizens. |
In the interest of fairness, so as not to act like a Korean: The Japanese denied, denied, denied the use of sex slaves during World War II. When the secret documents came out in the early 90s I believe, that may in some way, at least morally, pre-empt the 1968 agreement. I would personally consider it not a part of the agreement. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| To be clear, the secret documents proved that sex slave use was systematic and involved hundreds of thousands of women from many Asian countries. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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POSCO Told to Fund Charity for Forced-Labor Victims
Chosun Ilbo (January 20, 2009)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200901/200901200010.html
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A court has ordered steelmaker POSCO, which was established with reparations the Japanese paid under a 1965 treaty, to fulfill its social duties through charity such as donating money to a foundation for victims of forced labor.
The Seoul High Court said on Monday that it made the decision in a lawsuit by victims of forced labor in Japan and 100 surviving family members against POSCO. The victims had argued the Park Chung-hee government used money intended as compensation for them under the Korea-Japan Normalization Treaty to set up the steelmaker, then called Pohang Iron & Steel. They sued POSCO for W1 million (US$1=W1,364) each in damages in 2006, when it formed an alliance with Nippon Steel, the successor to Japan's wartime steel producer.
But under an arbitration decision, the plaintiffs would agree not to appeal and POSCO to tap into its existing charity budget to donate money to a non-profit group supporting the victims and their families or to a scholarship fund for their children.
Either side has until the end of the month to contest the decision.
The court said it preferred to call on the social responsibility of the steel giant rather than seeking legal responsibility.
Pohang Iron & Steel was created in April 1968 using $119.5 million out of the $800 million Korea received in reparations. |
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