On March 9, South Korea s Yoon Suk Yeol administration announced a bilateral agreement with Japan to compensate former wartime laborers through a Seoul-backed public foundation, with voluntary contributions from Japanese companies. The opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) rejected the agreement as
South Korea Should Embrace Liberty in Confronting Pyongyang
The government of one of the world’s most important and successful nations has exhibited a shocking fear of exposing its people to information freely available throughout most of the world.
The Republic of Korea barely survived the Korean War, which ended 68 years ago. The ROK also barely survived the ensuing peace.
The country was ravaged by war. Seoul changed hands four times. South Korean civilian casualties were in the hundreds of thousands. Destruction was widespread with massive numbers of people driven from their homes. An estimated 650,000 North Koreans fled south and had to be integrated into a society badly malformed by war. For years the South remained materially poor and poorly governed.