SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Yonhap) -- An elderly South Korean victim of Japan's wartime forced labor, known for her rejection of a ...

S EOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top court ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor, as it sided Thursday with its ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol's battle to reform a South Korea beset with structural problems under the specter of an increasingly aggressive neighbor to the North ...

A South Korean plaintiff in a wartime labor case against a Japanese firm, who had opposed South Korea's decision to compensate plaintiffs through a government-backed foundation instead of the sued ...

The money to compensate the forced labor victims is likely to come from South Korean companies that benefited from that 1965 accord, which was accompanied by hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

The South Korean public is less enthused ... With a new consultative body to address forced labor issues, the Yoon administration is seeking to prevent the issues that scuttled the 2015 "comfort ...

The North Korean economy entered one of its worst phases of stagnation ... and children are subjected to forced labor and sex ...

The North's Korea Association for Human Rights Studies this month rejected a U.N. report on its human rights violations ...

SEOUL--A group of South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor accused Seoul of rushing a compensation plan with Tokyo for diplomatic and political gains, amid a prolonged legal battle ...

Mitsubishi seems to have given the impression that its apology is not meant for Chinese or Korean victims. As China’s Global Times put it: Imperial Japan made extensive use of forced labor, not ...