Plaintiffs seek Nippon Steel asset seizure in ROK 'forced labor' case

SEOUL - South Korean plaintiffs in a World War II forced labor court case against Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp (NSSM) have applied to seize some of Nippon Steel's Korean assets, their lawyers said on Wednesday.

Japan denounced a South Korean Supreme Court ruling in October that Nippon Steel should pay 100 million won ($90,500) to each of four South Koreans to compensate them for suffering forced labor during the war.

The Japanese government said all wartime reparations were dealt with in a 1965 treaty that had normalized ties between the two neighbors.