A view of the headquarters of the National Pension Service. / Provided by the National Pension Service
[한스경제=김동용 기자] It has been pointed out that the National Pension Service is investing 1.5 trillion won in stocks of Japanese war crimes companies.
According to the investment status submitted by the National Pension Service by Democratic Party lawmaker Kang Byung-won of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee on the 19th, the amount invested in Japanese war crimes companies designated by the Prime Minister’s Office as of February this year was 1.57 trillion won.
Among them, direct investment was 880 billion won and indirect investment was 690 billion won. In particular, a total of 94.2 billion won was invested in Mitsubishi Group affiliates related to forced labor on Hashima Island, also known as the movie ‘Battleship Island’.
In addition, companies with large investment scale are △Shin-Etsu Chemical (direct 162.9 billion won, indirect 196.3 billion won) and △Toyota Motors (27.7 billion won direct, 63.3 billion won indirect) △Kubota (54.5 billion won direct, 62.2 billion won indirect) △Daikin Industrial Co., Ltd. 103.6 billion won directly and 6.5 billion won indirectly).
“Considering pension management and the characteristics of the Japanese economy, it is unrealistic to completely exclude all war crimes investments, but direct investment, not indirect investment, does not match the public sentiment and violates ESG (environmental, social, governance) investment,” said Rep. Kang Byung-won. be,” he pointed out.
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