Can South Korea and Japan repair their strained relationship?

Could chilly ties between Japan and South Korea be headed for a thaw?

Signs are increasingly pointing in that direction, as both sides look to repair a relationship clouded by years of mistrust and a tumultuous past.

Earlier this month, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol revealed a plan to use a private South Korean foundation to compensate lawsuit plaintiffs in place of two Japanese firms over wartime forced labor during Japan’s colonial rule of the peninsula.