As a concrete example of anti-Japanese conduct by the South Korean government, this passage records the unilateral establishment of the Syngman Rhee Line and the illegal seizure, abuse, and detention of Japanese fishermen that followed.
South Korean patrol boats attacked Japanese fishing vessels on the high seas, causing many deaths and injuries, while captured fishermen were subjected to torture, forced confessions, and appalling prison conditions.
The passage denounces, with specific figures, the fact that the families were also devastated economically and psychologically, yet South Korea has offered neither apology nor compensation to this day.

2019-03-02
The families left behind suffered heavy economic and psychological burdens, and some wives, unable to bear it, lost their sanity or took their own lives… and yet, to this day, South Korea has offered not a single word of apology nor any compensation.

What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.
3. Actual examples of anti-Japanese conduct.
Because the people of South Korea are raised under the kind of education described above, it follows naturally that both the government and the public will resort to anti-Japanese behavior in every sphere.
3-1. Examples of anti-Japanese acts by the South Korean government.
3-1-1. Abuse of Japanese fishermen under the Syngman Rhee Line.
On January 18, 1952, just before the coming into force of the San Francisco Peace Treaty recognizing the restoration of Japan’s sovereignty, South Korea, in order to monopolize marine resources and at the same time absorb Takeshima of Shimane Prefecture and expand its territory, unilaterally drew a military boundary line on the high seas of the Sea of Japan, known as the Syngman Rhee Line, and designated the inside as an exclusive economic zone.
The Syngman Rhee Line cannot be justified under any body of international law, and naturally the Japanese government has never recognized it.
Nevertheless, the South Korean government insisted that the Syngman Rhee Line was legitimate, and South Korean patrol boats indiscriminately attacked even Japanese fishing vessels navigating outside the line, seized innocent Japanese fishermen, and took them to Busan Port.
The illegal enforcement carried out by South Korean patrol boats reached extreme brutality, and many deaths occurred through shootings, rammings, and other attacks.
Detailed records from that time remain in A History of the Japan–Korea Fisheries Countermeasure Movement, published by the Japan–Korea Fisheries Council.
The Japanese fishermen who were seized and detained were subjected to brutal torture, including beatings with sticks, forced to confess, and sentenced through one-sided trials that ignored human rights in a manner unthinkable in a civilized country.
Life in prison was utterly miserable.
Around twenty people were crammed into each communal cell, and they had to sleep not only with their arms and legs but even their bodies piled on top of one another.
The filthiness of the food defies description; moldy barley and rotten fish appeared repeatedly, and it was not fit for human consumption.
Almost all became malnourished and hovered near death, and eventually there were even deaths by starvation.
After 1954, even those who had completed their “sentences” were not released, and detainees deprived of all hope of returning home were pushed beyond their physical and psychological limits, with some descending into madness.
The families left behind suffered heavy economic and psychological burdens, and some wives, unable to bear it, lost their sanity or took their own lives.
Until the Japan–South Korea Fisheries Agreement attached to the 1965 Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea was concluded, the number of Japanese fishermen detained by South Korea’s illegal seizures reached 3,929, the number of illegally seized fishing vessels 328, the number of casualties caused by attacks at the time of seizure 44, of whom 29 were killed, with 84 injured, and the total amount of material damage reached approximately 9 billion yen in the value of that time, according to A History of the Japan–Korea Fisheries Countermeasure Movement, published by the Japan–Korea Fisheries Council.
And yet, to this day, South Korea has offered not a single word of apology nor any compensation.
To be continued.