Forced Labour Victims reject South Koreas deal in Japan Favorite 

Elderly South Korean victims of wartime forced labour in Japan during World War 2 took to the streets in wheelchairs on Tuesday, stating that they were against the compensation deal that was announced which complicates South Korea's effort to the end the long standing diplomatic feud with Japan. The newly elected President, Yoon Suk Yeol, created a plan in which South Korea would compensate the former forced labourers through an existing public foundation that would be funded by South Korean private-sector companies rather than seeking payment from Japan. The two elderly victims in wheelchairs, who consent was required in order for the plan to proceed rejected the offer stating that Japan should be the one to pay compensation an apologize rather than South Korea. The two women mentioned above, Yang Geum-Dok and Kim Sung-joo aged 95, were victims to working at a Mitsubishi Heavy (Aircraft factory) in Nagoya Japan when they were teenagers during World War 2. The two came to Seoul to join a demonstration taking place in front of the city hall with hundreds of other citizens waving red banners and cards, calling the newly elected president's diplomacy "humiliating to South Korea" and demanded that the deal be withdrawn.