Officially renamed as POSCO International, the company dropped a second roadblock to the farmers' justice, making a rare demand that the powers of attorney granting the plaintiffs' law firm YIGONG be certified by the South Korean consulate of Myanmar in Yangon. Kyuakphyu Island was 12 hours drive away from Yangon and many of the plaintiffs have not even ridden airplane before or visited Yangon. The cost of transporting all 21 plaintiffs to Yangon and back was prohibitive.

An excerpt of a news article of Korea University News with the screen capture of the Story Funding, which reads: "Our law schools's international human rights clinic began a crowd funding in order to raise the litigation expenses for Kyaukphyu villagers in Myanmar. Korean companies' resource development projects nearly robbed the Kyaukphyu villagers of their land, some people felt and their donations added up to KRW 2.24M." After the lawsuit was filed in March 2016, Daewoo

In 2011 through 2012, the Clinic continued with its general goal of enhancing transparency around the multinational extractive companies' cooptation with the local authoritarian regimes, while the fact-finding efforts on the Shwe gas project inside Myanmar met with practical difficulties and was limited to secondhand accounts through the refugees in the Thailand border towns. The 2010 meeting with Earth Rights International suggested making FOIA requests to KOGAS, the South K