South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld lower court decisions ordering Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp. to pay damages to South Koreans over wartime labor.The ruling comes after the top court last month ordered the company and two other Japanese firms to compensate victims of forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.The rulings were issued amid an improvement in Japan-South Korea relations since Seoul announced a plan in March last year to resolve the wartime labor compensation issue.Bilateral ties deteriorated after the top court in late 2018 upheld or…READ FULL ARTICLE
