The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
The resolution is as follows.
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The Korean Supreme Court ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation to pay 100 million won (10 million yen) to four former Korean workers.
It is an unjust verdict to shake the foundation of Japan-ROK relations so we strongly protests.
The four are not ‘former requisition workers’ but ‘wartime workers’.
‘Requisition’ began in September 1944, but they went to Japan in response to recruitment in 41 and 43 years.
Many Koreans worked at Japanese military factories and coal mines during the war.
The form was various, recruitment, official mediation, requisition, but it was wage labor in all private enterprises, treatment was not bad overall.
It is because many Japanese men were absent because of drafts and the labor shortage.
Japan's payment of 300 million dollars under the agreement of 1965, compensation for wartime workers was ‘completely and finally resolved’ (Article 2 of the Agreement).
In 1975, Korea compensated unpaid wages and deposits and deceased persons out of 300 million dollars, and in 2005 the President Moon Jae-in was a member of the committee, it concluded '300 million dollars are comprehensively taken into consideration of the fundamental for solving the compensation problem for forced mobilization' then from 2008, they also paid unpaid wages, savings and other liquidation and remuneration.
Therefore, the Supreme Court of Japan dismissed the plaintiff's action.
However, the ruling of this time rejected the judgment of Japan as contrary to Korean public order and morals because it does not regard Japanese rule as illegal.
It is an unfair ruling to deny Japanese law and infringe the Japanese private property.
Japan did not take governing invalidity even when concluding an agreement.
Understanding it, Korea received nearly 300 million dollars that is comparable to the country's national budget at that time and had concluded diplomatic relations.
The judgment denies it now, it rocks the friendship between Japan and the ROK that the predecessors of both countries built from the fundamentals.
We strongly protest this unjust ruling and make the following resolutions.
1.The government protested the ruling, bring up diplomatic negotiations based on the agreement, defend property rights of Japanese companies.
2.Korea must keep the order stipulated in treaties and agreements and do not infringe on the assets of Japanese companies
3.We must publicize to the international community concerned government and private sector efforts, actual state of wartime work, which was legally done and the truth of post-war clean up, which we did in all sincerity.
Hurry up the establishment of research and public relations system for that.
November 26, 2018
Emergency meeting participants protesting South Korea's unfair judgment
