Mentally Disabled Slaves Mine Fancy Salt For South Koreans Jan 14, 2015
Today in horrifying reads, we recommend the AP’s investigation into salt mining slavery in South Korea. In Sinan County, which mostly consists of hundreds of islands off the southwestern tip of the main peninsula, high-end salt mining is a hugely profitable enterprise. The salt is called “
Cheonilyeom,” which roughly translates to something like “bay salt” or “solar salt,” dried naturally and slowly in the sun. It’s prized by South Korean chefs in kind of the same way Maldon flaked sea salt is by western chefs.
But Sinan salt has an absurdly, offensively dark creation process. Hundreds of slaves, many physically or mentally disabled, are forced to work the salt fields and often treated brutally. An investigation last year churned up some, though not enough, controversy, and about 50 farm workers were charged with crimes relating to the slavery, but local polic
A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 12 World War II sex slaves or their families, in an unprecedented ruling that prompted an immediate denunciation by Tokyo
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South Korean ambassador to Japan Nam Gwan-pyo speaking to the media after being summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on January 8, 2021, as Tokyo denounced a South Korean court ruling ordering the Japanese government to pay compensation to twelve World War II sex slaves. - AFP SEOUL, Jan 9 (Reuters): A South Korean court for the first time on Friday ordered Japan to compensate 12 women who were forced to work in its wartime brothels, a ruling that drew a rebuke from Tokyo and threatened to rekindle a diplomatic feud between the two countries.
Reminders of Japan s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula are contentious for both sides, with many surviving comfort women - a Japanese euphemism for the sex abuse victims - demanding Tokyo s formal apology and compensation.
A South Korean court ordered Japan on Friday to compensate 12 women who were forced to work as sex slaves in wartime Japanese brothels, in a ruling that could rekindle diplomatic and history feuds between the two countries.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Japan should pay 100 million won ($91,000) to each of the victims.
“Evidence, relevant materials and testimonies show that the victims suffered from extreme, unimaginable mental and physical pain due to the illegal acts by the accused. But no compensation has been made for their suffering” the court said in its verdict.
It is the first civilian legal case in South Korea against Tokyo by wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops, who were euphemistically labelled “comfort women”.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court for the first time on Friday ordered Japan to compensate 12 women who were forced to work in its wartime brothels, a ruling that drew a rebuke from Tokyo and threatened to rekindle a diplomatic feud between the two countries.
FILE PHOTO: Japan s new Chief of Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato announces new cabinet members at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Reminders of Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula are contentious for both sides, with many surviving “comfort women” - a Japanese euphemism for the sex abuse victims - demanding Tokyo’s formal apology and compensation.