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Court Orders Mitsubishi to Pay Compensation to Forced Labor Victims in S Korea

© AFP 2023 / str / YONHAPLee Kyung-Ja (L), a relative of late victim Choe Jeong-Rye, and Lee Kuk-Un (R), who leads a group of activists working for former slave workers, react outside the district court in the southern city of Gwangju on August 8, 2017 after the court ruled Mitsubishi Heavy Industries should pay compensation to two South Korean former wartime slave workers
Lee Kyung-Ja (L), a relative of late victim Choe Jeong-Rye, and Lee Kuk-Un (R), who leads a group of activists working for former slave workers, react outside the district court in the southern city of Gwangju on August 8, 2017 after the court ruled Mitsubishi Heavy Industries should pay compensation to two South Korean former wartime slave workers - Sputnik International
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Gwangju District Court of South Korea ruled Mitsubishi must pay some $106,000 to an 85-year-old Korean man, Kim Young-ok, who was forced into arduous toil at an aircraft factory under the Japanese company during wartime, according to local media.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A South Korean court ruled Tuesday that Mitsubishi company has to pay compensation to a Korean national who fell victim to Japanese forced labor during the World War II, as well as to a family member of a deceased victim, media reported Tuesday.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the Gwangju District Court ruled Mitsubishi must pay some $106,000 to an 85-year-old Korean man, Kim Young-ok, who was forced into arduous toil at an aircraft factory under the Japanese company during wartime. Additionally, around $2,800 in compensation was ordered to a relative of deceased forced labor victim Choe Jeong-rye.

However, the sum of compensation is less than what the plaintiffs had demanded.

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Mitsubishi is reportedly intending to appeal against the ruling.

The Gwangju court is expected to hold a similar trial on Friday.

The Korean peninsula was occupied by the Japanese Empire between 1910 and 1945. It is believed that Japanese firms forced prisoners of war, as well as local residents into hard labor within the Japanese military industry during the occupation.

In 2016, Mitsubishi agreed to pay $15,000 dollars to 3,765 Chinese men and women who the company exploited for its needs in coal mines during WWII.

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