SEOUL -- In an open forum on one of the most contentious issues between Japan and South Korea, a high-ranking South Korean government official laid out the details on Thursday for a plan to resolve the conflict over compensation for wartime requisitioned workers from the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea has called for using a public benefit foundation, established to support the former requisitioned workers to pay the compensation -- a proposal it hopes will settle the issue once and for all.
The governments of the two countries had previously agreed that the issue had been settled under a 1965 agreement regarding wartime matters between them, but it became complicated when South Korea's Supreme Court ordered the Japanese companies to pay compensation for the former requisitioned workers and their bereaved families.
