The issues of sexual slavery, forced labor and other abuses during Japan’s brutal colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula ...

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 ...

However, a South Korean civic group supporting plaintiffs in forced labor lawsuits said it is unclear why Yang, who is suffering from dementia and is currently hospitalized, and her family members ...

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 ...

North Korean defector siblings speak to University of Illinois students about their experiences in North Korea and coming to ...

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 ...

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 government insists it was a site of “forced labor.” Gaining the understanding of South Korea, a member country of the committee, was a significant challenge, as the committee ...

South Korea's relations with Japan deteriorated following 2018 Supreme Court rulings that ordered Mitsubishi Heavy and another company to pay damages for forced labor during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial ...