Vietnamese woman Nguyen Thi Thanh is seen on a laptop computer monitor as she speaks outside the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea’s capital Seoul on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. YONHAP NEWS AGENCY PHOTO VIA AP
Vietnamese woman Nguyen Thi Thanh is seen on a laptop computer monitor as she speaks outside the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea’s capital Seoul on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. YONHAP NEWS AGENCY PHOTO VIA AP
Vietnamese woman Nguyen Thi Thanh is seen on a laptop computer monitor as she speaks outside the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea's capital Seoul on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. YONHAP NEWS AGENCY PHOTO VIA AP

SEOUL: A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered the government to pay 30 million won ($24,000) to a Vietnamese woman who survived a gunshot wound, but lost several relatives when South Korean Marines rampaged through her village during the Vietnam War in 1968.

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