South Korea said Monday that it held the first meeting of a public-private body it has set up to resolve the wartime labor issues during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, pledging to work toward a solution to the issue."The government will listen to opinions of those who were directly involved in the wartime forced labor issue and of various fields while making continuous efforts in seeking a reasonable solution" through the future meetings of the public-private body, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.Experts and lawyers of South Korean plaintiffs who won compensation ca…READ FULL ARTICLE
