The Judicial Remedy's Unfulfilled Potential: Curing the Pain of Historical Atrocities in the South Korean-Japanese Context

Fan discusses the aspects of curing the pain of historical atrocities in the South Korean-Japanese context. The author lays out the historical background of the forced labor issue, including (A) the Korean forced laborers' experience during the Second World War, (B) the history surrounding a 1965 treaty between South Korea and Japan which became the central issue of the New Nippon Steel Case, and (C) a brief comparative account of Germany's approach to atonement for and memorialization of atrocities, including some of Arendt's theoretical interpretation of the Holocaust.