The South Korean government said during normalization talks with Japan in the 1960s that it would be obliged to handle individual compensation to its citizens who suffered during Japan's colonial rule, diplomatic documents showed on Monday.

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One of the [recently revealed five] documents, which the South Korean Foreign Ministry sent to the South Korean Economic Planning Agency in 1964, shows that Seoul confirmed that South Koreans individual rights to claim compensation from Japan would lapse upon the signing of the normalization agreements.

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