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SEOUL, March 8 (Xinhuanet) -- The South Korean government on Wednesday fixed
a plan of providing at most 20 million won (20,618 U.S. dollars) compensation to
each family of those forced to be labors for Japanese colonizers decades ago.
The plan was finalized at a meeting earlier in the day of a civilian-government
panel presided over by South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan.
"The government decided to pay 20 million won to the surviving family of each
individual who died during the period of forced labor," Yoo Chong-sang, the
deputy minister for the Office for Government Policy Coordination, was quoted as
saying by South Korean Yonhap News Agency.
The panel was formed to tackle the compensation issue for South Korean people
who were forced to be labors during the Japan's colonization of the Korean
Peninsula during 1910-1945.
About 211,000 South Korean nationals at home and abroad have so far reported
themselves or family members as victims of forced labor to a state fact-finding
panel, Yoo said, adding among them, about 20,000 are eligible for cash support.
The compensation move is in response to public criticism that the South Korean
government omitted the rights of those victimized during the negotiations for
normalizing diplomatic relations with Japan decades ago.
Japan agreed to provide economic assistance of 300 million dollars in grants and
200 million dollars in loans when it normalized diplomatic ties with South Korea
in 1965.
In return, South Korea gave up its right to claim compensation from Japan for
individual damages during the colonial era.
During the 1970s, the South Korean government only used just 10 percent of the
300 million dollars in grants from Japan to help those former forced laborers.
Such facts were disclosed through declassified diplomatic documents on South
Korea-Japan relations last year. Enditem
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