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Prosecutors allege South Korea's largest firm meddled in trials against its clients—Japanese companies accused of using Korean forced labor during the years of Japanese colonial rule.
December 05, 2018 at 03:51 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.com
Prosecutors in South Korea raided the offices of Kim & Chang, the nation’s largest law firm, last month amid allegations that the firm meddled in trials against its clients—Japanese companies accused of using forced labor of Koreans during the period of Japanese colonial rule.
Korea was a Japanese colony from 1910 until Japan’s 1945 surrender in World War II.
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