 The article said that despite reports of sexual assaults done to Vietnamese women by the South Korean military during the Vietnam War there had been no documentation when the article was written on September 4, 2016, that would implicate the South Korean government or military as the creator or controller by way of ""recruitment, transportation, housing and supplies, management, payment and the post-war dealings with victims"" of a comfort women operation as part of a ""formal military policy"".Because what South Korea did during the Vietnam War did not meet this criteria, the article classified South Korea as not having done a "comfort women" operation during the Vietnam War.An October 30, 2016, article in "The Hankyoreh" said that Jang Ui-seong, head of the Vietnam Veterans' Association of Korea (VVAK), was representing 831 plaintiffs in a defamation lawsuit against Ku Su-jeong for Ku's 2014 interview in the Japanese newspaper "Shūkan Bunshun", Ku's 2016 interview in the South Korean newspaper The Hankyoreh and Ku's statements in a video.