SEOUL: South Korea may retaliate against Japan's latest export limits on high-tech materials, it said on Thursday , as a row over forced wartime labour threatened to disrupt global supplies of memory chips and smartphones.
The dispute is the latest flashpoint in a quarrel over South Korean efforts to seek compensation for Japan's use of forced wartime labour, which got fresh impetus from South Korean court rulings last year. The row exploded late last year when South Korean court rulings ordered Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to South Korean plaintiffs.Channel NewsAsia - Sentifi topic widget
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