The South Korean government is reviewing plans to compensate victims of forced mobilization by establishing a foundation based on the assumption that Japanese companies will compensate them for the ruling,
The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on March 23 that the Korean government is reviewing a solution to compensate victims of forced mobilization and bereaved families who have not set up a foundation in return for a compensation order by the Japanese government.
Yomiuri explained that the compromise has come as the South Korean government has stood in the position that it is against the principles of the division of the three books to refer to the judicial process in the administration.
The South Korean government has speculated that the solution could be acceptable to the Japanese side in the sense that it could stop demanding additional compensation orders for Japanese companies.
Yomiuri said it is unclear whether the Japanese government will accept such a proposal from the South Korean government, and the Japanese government has maintained that the issue of all individual claims has been settled in the 1965 agreement.
The newspaper said that it is not easy for the Korean side to adopt such a solution, and the South Korean government has independently compensated some victims of forced labor in the past, expecting equity problems between the new compensation amount and the past compensation amount.
