• Lawyers for four South Koreans (shown in photographs) who were forced during Japan's occupation of the Korean Peninsula to work at a steel mill belonging to Japan Iron & Steel Co., later known as Nippon Steel Corp., are seen outside the head office of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. in Tokyo on Monday. | KYODO
    Lawyers for four South Koreans (shown in photographs) who were forced during Japan's occupation of the Korean Peninsula to work at a steel mill belonging to Japan Iron & Steel Co., later known as Nippon Steel Corp., are seen outside the head office of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. in Tokyo on Monday. | KYODO

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Lawyers representing four South Koreans, recently awarded damages by the country’s top court for wartime labor, were rebuffed Monday when they visited a Japanese steel maker in Tokyo to demand it pay the compensation.

After a request to hold a meeting was rejected by Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., Kim Se-un, one of the lawyers, told reporters that they will “start procedures to seize” the assets of the Japanese company’s affiliates in South Korea as a way to secure damages.

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