South Korea's Foreign Ministry said it considers proposals for a South Korean foundation to compensate plaintiffs on behalf of Japanese corporate defendants over wartime labor issues as the best possible option for resolving the matter, during a public hearing held Thursday.The public hearing, hosted by the ministry to discuss wartime labor issues stemming from Japan's colonial-era rule of the Korean Peninsula, was organized to find a way to compensate South Koreans following 2018 Supreme Court rulings that ordered two Japanese companies to pay damages to the plaintiffs.Seo Min Jung, the mi…READ FULL ARTICLE
