South Korea must adhere to its agreements or lose international trust. It must recognize those parties out to destroy the foundations of Japan-Korea relations.
The Yoon government is seeking a resolution of the wartime labor issue but has yet to convince South Korean lawsuit parties who want money, or a...
Yoon’s domestic efforts on Korea-Japan issues have already demonstrated the challenges of coming up with a resolution acceptable to the South Korean public.
Koreans and Japanese need to overcome the past and join hands to meet the challenges of the future. Currently, the ball is in South Korea and...
The claims of wartime workers were settled in the 1965 bilateral agreement between Tokyo and Seoul. The Daejeon District Court’s order to sell the seized assets...
Moon Jae In’s administration wants to leave a legacy of maintaining a hard line on Japan, and thus will probably avoid resolution of any major political...
The Seoul Central District Court rules that the case, which the Supreme Court favored in 2018, is a “breach” of the 1965 Japan-South Korea agreement on...
If Moon Jae In means what he says, that he wants “Japan to be South Korea’s most important partner,” he needs to take specific action and...
