The South Korean government that got the money did not distribute it to the victims, but invested in steel and telecommunications, but the victims in South Korea have been demanding compensation. Before Moon Jae in, the Korean government used money to solve complaints. Of course, not many people complain. The Central Daily News published an article on this issue, which means that the experience of those "expropriated" may not be so bad. Therefore, the money paid to individuals before Roh Moo-hyun's regime was only about $8 million. In 2005, Roh Moo-hyun's regime thought it was outrageous and gave some money, because Roh Moo-hyun also admitted that the $300 million given by Japan included compensation for expropriation and murder.
However, President Moon Jae in objected to this understanding. When he was a practicing lawyer, he thought that the Japan-South Korea Claims Agreement did not solve this problem, and he began to solve it after he became president.
South Korea is a country with separation of powers, but the judges in charge of judicial power are appointed by the president in charge of executive power. After taking office from 2065438 to September 2007, Moon Jae in made an exception and appointed Kim Myung Soo as the president of the Grand Court, and began to investigate many crimes such as "abuse of power and obstruction of the exercise of power" by the former president of the Grand Court. "Abuse of power" here means that Liang Chengtai has been in charge of "World War II labor claims". Liang Chengtai was formally arrested on 20 19124 October.
In this way, on October 30th, 20 18 10/kloc-0, the South Korean Grand Court ruled that four formerly expropriated workers should be compensated by Japanese enterprises, and the compensation amount was about 90,000 US dollars each.
2018165438+1October 12. Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Corporation of Japan rejected the claim of Korean lawyers.
20 19 10/8 65438+ The Daegu District Court of South Korea agreed to seize 30% of the shares of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo and South Korea's Posco Steel Joint Venture Company for sale as compensation funds.
On March 26th, South Korea's Daejeon District Court also agreed to seize two trademark rights and six patents of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for auction.
Paragraph 1 to paragraph 3 of Article 3 of the Japan-Korea Claims Agreement stipulates the settlement procedure in case of conflict: settlement through diplomatic channels->; If negotiation fails, both parties shall form an arbitration commission for settlement-> If it fails, directly consider submitting it to a third country for arbitration. But these measures must be responded by another government.
The Japanese government stepped down in this order, but none of them got a response from the South Korean government. The South Korean government's opinion is that South Korea is a country with separation of powers, and the government cannot interfere with judicial decisions. Japan has only one choice: compensation.
At this time, the argument of "economic sanctions" appeared in Japan, and the Korean media also reported that the Japanese government had studied more than 100 sanctions.
On March 12, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso mentioned three specific methods, such as tariff, remittance and suspension of issuing entry visas. The conservative media in South Korea began to warn the government of this change.
However, the South Korean government and left-wing media believe that Japan cannot launch economic sanctions, because Japan is not South Korea's largest trading partner, and Korean tourists are Japan's main source of tourists. From 2065438 to 2008, Japan paid $24 billion to South Korea, and 85% of enterprises in South Korea and Japan operated in black, higher than 72% in China and 67% in Thailand. The National Daily published an editorial warning Aso not to forget that his family's "Aso charcoal mine" is one of the "war criminals' enterprises".
On May 20th, the Japanese government requested the establishment of an arbitration commission composed of Japan, South Korea and a third country to solve the problem. After a silence of 1 month, the South Korean government put forward the case of "setting up a requisition fund" on June 9, proposing that "war criminals" such as Nippon Steel & Sumitomo, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and "Korean enterprises benefiting from Japanese funds" such as South Korea's Posco and South Korea's KT set up funds for compensation. This alias has already been used.
At that time, some people in South Korea's ruling party proposed to formulate a "special law on compulsory expropriation", instead of holding Japanese enterprises accountable, the South Korean government should compensate the victims of expropriation first, but President Moon Jae in rejected it on the grounds that "the victims demanded direct compensation from Japan".
So someone put forward the "2+ 1 proposal", which was also considered by the Korean government, but was also rejected by President Moon Jae in. President Moon Jae in's proposal of "1+ 1", which only agreed to Japanese and Korean enterprises' compensation, has been rejected by Japan. Until July 4th, South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Jin Renche still said: "(65438+!
On June 23, a research report commissioned by the Korea Government Economic Research Institute of Busan University was published, arguing that even if Japan raises the import tariff on Korean products to 30%, South Korea's exports to Japan will decrease by 8%, which is within the tolerable range.
The National Daily published an editorial on June 25th, questioning whether Abe's decision not to seize the opportunity of the G20 summit in Osaka to meet with President Moon Jae in "ignored Japan-ROK relations".
1 In July, Japan decided to stop the simplified procedures of exporting photoresist, hydrogen fluoride and fluoropolyimide to South Korea from July 4, and cancel the "white list" treatment of South Korea. The Japanese side said that this change has nothing to do with the expropriation trial.
President Moon Jae in devoted almost all his energy to improving relations with North Korea, and never expressed his opinions. The Central Daily News believes that it is irresponsible for the president who tried his best to promote the expropriation judgment to push the cabinet to the front line to deal with this issue now. At this time, it is reported that the South Korean Ministry of National Defense is preparing to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the June 25th War with North Korea next year.
Until July 8th, a week later, Moon Jae in held a meeting with the Chief Secretary and Assistant in Cheongwadae, saying that "looking at the problem from a medium-and long-term perspective is just a good opportunity to solve the problems accumulated by Korean enterprises over the past decades, …, which can solve the profound trade deficit with Japan", demanding that Japan withdraw its decision, and saying that "if Korean enterprises are hurt, the Korean government will definitely respond". Amari Akira, an important town of the Liberal Democratic Party and former minister of economic regeneration, commented on this.
In response to the government's plan to invest 1 trillion won (about 5.8 billion yuan) in chip materials every year, the questions of Central Daily News and Chosun Ilbo are: How did Samsung, SK and LG spend these months? Once the semiconductor industry, which accounts for 20% of the export volume, falls behind, it will never catch up.
Disappointed with President Moon Jae in and the presidential palace, the editorial of Chosun Ilbo on July 5th was titled "If you are enthusiastic about the northern policy, there will be no Japanese retaliation".
In response to South Korea's move to resort to the WTO, Japan said that this matter has nothing to do with the WTO, because there is no problem of "prohibiting exports to South Korea", but only canceling the preferential treatment for South Korea. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a TV program on July 7: "No European country has listed South Korea as a' white country', and Japan has designated South Korea as one of the Asian countries."
The reason why "South Korea was not qualified to be a white country from the beginning, but Japan was flattering" is because Japanese media reported that since 2065,438+05, there have been 156 illegal exports of materials that may be used for military purposes in South Korea, and the destination is probably North Korea, so the current dispute between Japan and South Korea has nothing to do with trade, but a national security issue.
To sum up, South Korea wants to blackmail the Japanese again. Japan seized the property of Japanese-funded companies this time without the consent of South Korea, so it began to make trouble. Japan doesn't know what to do. It has apologized and said that South Korea is still not satisfied with the compensation.