According to Yonhap News Agency on the 12th, South Korea's Supreme Court handed down a final judgment on the same day in a lawsuit brought by the survivors of Japanese forced labor recruitment in World War II against a Japanese company, upholding the results of the second instance judgment and demanding 80 million won in compensation from the defendant. The survivor of Min, a Korean labor victim, filed a lawsuit against Nippon Steel in April 2019. In February 2022, the court of first instance ruled that the plaintiff lost the lawsuit on the grounds that the survivor's right to claim damages had exceeded the statute of limitations. However, the court of second instance overturned the first instance judgment in September 2024 and demanded that the defendant pay 80 million won in compensation to the plaintiff. During Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, a large number of laborers were forcibly recruited to work in Japan. Over a long period of time, South Korean workers and their survivors have filed numerous lawsuits against Japan, but the Japanese government and related companies have always refused compensation on the grounds that the “Korea-Japan Claims Agreement” has “resolved” the claims. In October 2018, the Supreme Court of Korea ordered Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation to pay compensation of 100 million won each to the four Korean victims of forced labor recruitment in World War II, which clearly determined that the “Korea-Japan Claims Agreement” signed between South Korea and Japan in 1965 when normalizing diplomatic relations did not prevent Korean laborers who were forcibly recruited during World War II from exercising their right to individual claims.

According to Yonhap News Agency on the 12th, South Korea's Supreme Court handed down a final judgment on the same day in a lawsuit brought by the survivors of Japanese forced labor recruitment in World War II against a Japanese company, upholding the results of the second instance judgment and demanding 80 million won in compensation from the defendant. The survivor of Min, a Korean labor victim, filed a lawsuit against Nippon Steel in April 2019. In February 2022, the court of first instance ruled that the plaintiff lost the lawsuit on the grounds that the survivor's right to claim damages had exceeded the statute of limitations. However, the court of second instance overturned the first instance judgment in September 2024 and demanded that the defendant pay 80 million won in compensation to the plaintiff. During Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, a large number of laborers were forcibly recruited to work in Japan. Over a long period of time, South Korean workers and their survivors have filed numerous lawsuits against Japan, but the Japanese government and related companies have always refused compensation on the grounds that the “Korea-Japan Claims Agreement” has “resolved” the claims. In October 2018, the Supreme Court of Korea ordered Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation to pay compensation of 100 million won each to the four Korean victims of forced labor recruitment in World War II, which clearly determined that the “Korea-Japan Claims Agreement” signed between South Korea and Japan in 1965 when normalizing diplomatic relations did not prevent Korean laborers who were forcibly recruited during World War II from exercising their right to individual claims.