After the campaign to expose the connection between the military and POSCO was conducted and the op-ed was published in March 2022, POSCO contacted the Clinic for negotiation in August 2022, days before the deadline to file appeal to the Supreme Court. POSCO wanted "cease-fire" on POSCO's land taking as well as its relationship with the military, which implicitly includes the withdrawal of the lawsuit. In exchange, POSCO offered to "donate" a certain sum to a local represen

On November 18, 2021, the Clinic held a public seminar with the help of Open Net, exposing POSCO International's contribution to the Myanmar military junta(Tatmadaw)'s slush fund. It was demonstrated that about 5~10%(USD 1.825 Billion) of Tatmadaw’s annual slush fund came from POSCO International's Shwe gas development (in the presentation attached below). The payments from DAEWOO/POSCO resulted from the profit sharing structure shown below both on the gas extraction itself

After the powers of attorney were certified in February 2019, the plaintiffs tried to prove the case (i.e., coerced land transfer) relying on the testimony of the former local government officials who oversaw the transfer. However, COVID19, begun spreading in January 2020, caused the border shutdown which made it impossible to bring the witnesses to trial, and then in February 2021, the military coup took place, again prolonging the border shutdown beyond the COVID period.

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