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Lead] Yang Geum-deok, who led the ruling on compensation for forced labor, said that it was no different from accepting benevolent money for a proposal made by a Korean company instead of a Japanese company.

The government is planning to hold an open forum soon to find a solution to forced labor, but labor is expected.



This is reporter Kim Ah-young.



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Grandmother Yang Geum-deok, a victim of forced labor, whom I met at her home, takes out one of her certificates and shows it to me.



A month ago, she received an award from a civic group after being prevented from receiving the National Medal of Honor by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' brake.



[(Not Yang Geum-deok) It says Yang Gwan-soon?

Yang Gwan-soon ?]



[Yang Geum-deok/Victim of forced conscription: There was a name named Yu Gwan-soon.

I'm smart, my last name is Yang.

That's why I'm called Yang Gwan-soon.]



Her adoptive grandmother made a final judgment for compulsory mobilization against the war criminal company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 2018, but she has so far not been implemented.



Her grandmother's position was simple.



That she should make amends on the wrong side.



[Yang Geum-deok/Victim of forced conscription: The wrong people should give it to us. Why do we give it in Korea?

Even if they give it to them directly, they treat it as if they were kind in Korea, and I hate that kind of money.]



POSCO, which contributed 6 billion won to the Victim Support Foundation under the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, is currently reviewing whether to pay an additional 4 billion won.



For these reasons, the victim side believes that paying back with money from Korean companies through the support foundation is likely.



The Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasizes the need for Japan's sincere response, but Japan is reluctant.



It is known that a discussion to find a solution will be held before the Lunar New Year.



[Yang Geum-deok/Victim of forced conscription: I don't starve to death no matter how much I don't have it, and it's justified to receive some apology.

I have to apologize, and I won't accept it even if I die soon.]



Since starting a lawsuit against the Japanese government in 1992, Grandma Yang Keum-deok has been demanding an apology from Japan.



She is in her 32nd year this year.