Ruling on wartime labor

Ruling on wartime labor

SEOUL, South Korea - Yeo Woon Taek (2nd from R), one of the plaintiffs in a wartime labor lawsuit, raises his fist with supporters outside the Seoul High Court on July 10, 2013. The court ordered later the same day Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay compensation to four South Koreans who were forced to work at the company's steel mill in Japan during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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