 A June 9, 2016, news article said that South Korea got "another apology" from Japan in December 2015 for the Korean comfort women issue, and South Korea got $8,300,000 from Japan for the Korean comfort women victims.Relating the topic back to the Lai Dai Han issue, the article said that president Park Geun-hye still had not apologized for the Lai Dai Han issue, and the article said that it would be surprising if president Park Geun-hye ever apologized for the Lai Dai Han issue.The article noted that back in 2001 Park Geun-hye criticized then South Korean president Kim Dae-jung for his apology to Vietnam for the acts of Koreans during the Vietnam War, because Park felt that Kim's apology shamed South Korea.