The Court of South Korea ordered the largest metallurgical company of Japan to pay compensation to four Koreans for slavery

On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, the South Korean court made an unprecedented decision to pay the Japanese Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. Compensation for slave labor to four southern Koreans who worked at the corporation factories during 35-year colonization of Korea Japan. This is reported today by Reuters.

Seoul's court ordered the Japanese to pay 100 million Korean won ($ 88 thousand) to each of the plaintiffs passing in this case. The court rejected the arguments of Nippon Steel that a completely different company owned a completely different company during colonization.

The Japanese courts, where the Koreans affected the claims at the hands of the Japanese during the Second World War, previously rejected all the statements, claiming that the issue of compensation was closed in 1965 by an agreement between the two countries on the normalization of diplomatic relations.

Nippon Steel, united with Sumitomo Metal Industries last year, claims to be not responsible for actions in wartime. The plaintiffs previously filed a lawsuit against Nippon Steel Corp in the Japanese city of Osaka, requiring compensation and not paid wages. Their business was terminated on the basis that the company was not the same organization that existed during the war. One of the plaintiffs said that he worked for two years for a pack of cigarettes a month.

Japan occupied Korea and the rules there from 1910 to 1945. Today there is no official data on the number of Koreans who may have been forced workers in Japan, but local media call the figure of hundreds of thousands of people.