Koo Hyun-chul, who, along with his father, was taken to Japan’s Hashima Island for forced labor at the age of nine in 1939, touches the model of a forced laborer statue displayed in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan on Sept. 18, 2017. At a news conference, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, one of the nation’s two largest umbrella unions, declared a plan to set up the statue in front of the Japanese mission next May Day. Tens of thousands of Koreans were forcibly taken to the island for coal mining during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea from 1910-1945. (Yonhap)
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No better way ahead than fully focused on the past.
And then after the war, tens of thousands of Koreans were taken to west Germany for coal mining. Just same! Both were paid workers.