Forced Labor
Korean: 강제동원 (強制動員)
Japanese: 徴用 (ちょうよう)
Legal significance: The choice of word is a legal battleground. "Forced Mobilization" (KR) implies illegality and coercion; "Conscription" (JP) implies a legal act of state during wartime.
Right to Claim
Korean: 청구권
Japanese: 請求権 (せいきゅうけん)
Legal significance: The heart of the 1965 Treaty. Disputes focus on whether "State" rights and "Individual" rights are the same.
Completely and Finally
Korean: 완전히 그리고 최종적으로
Japanese: 完全かつ最終的に
Legal significance: The specific phrase in the 1965 Agreement used by Japan to argue all liability has been extinguished.
Illegal Colonial Rule
Korean: 식민지배의 불법성
Japanese: 植民地支配の合法性
Legal significance: The South Korean Supreme Court's 2018 ruling hinges on the premise that the 1910-1945 occupation was void ab initio (illegal from the start).
Extinctive Prescription
Korean: 소멸시효
Japanese: 消滅時効 (しょうめつじこう)
Legal significance: A statute of limitations argument. At what point does the "clock" start for a victim to file a claim for wartime acts?
