South Korea court orders first compensation for Vietnam war victim
(VOVWORLD) - A South Korean court ordered the government on Tuesday to compensate a Vietnamese victim of atrocities during the Vietnam War in the 1970s.
 Nguyen Thi Thanh at a press conference in Seoul, August 9, 2022. (Photo: Yonhap News) |
The Seoul Central District Court ordered the government to provide around 30 million won (23,800 USD) in compensation and additional funds for delay to Nguyen Thi Thanh, a survivor of killings of civilians by South Korean troops.
Thanh, 63, filed a suit against the South Korean government in 2020 seeking about 30 million won in compensation, saying she lost her family members and suffered wounds herself when South Korean marines killed about 70 civilians in her hometown in Vietnam's central province of Quang Nam in 1968.