South Korea's Dubious Comfort Women Ruling – The Diplomat
Why the court got it wrong on international law By February 14, 2021 Advertisement A South Korean court made headlines in early January, when it ruled in a claim filed by former “comfort women” that Japan did not have state immunity in the case, and awarded damages to the plaintiffs. The comfort women worked in privately owned brothels servicing the Japanese military during World War II. Japan, invoking state immunity under international law, elected not to appeal the decision, and it was finalized on January 23. In 1993, the Korean congress enacted a special law stipulating that the Kor...
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