“They say we walked into gijichon on our own,but we were cheated by job-placement agencies
and were held in debt to pimps,” Park Young-ja, 62, one of the plaintiffs, said after the ruling on Friday.
“I was only a teenager and I had to receive at least five G.I.s every day with no day off.
When I ran away, they caught and beat me, raising my debt.”
"The official stand not of the DFA but of the Philippines for several years is that it has been officially part of the reparations and it has been officially settled," Cayetano said.