In 2012, CNN's American News program introduced 7 of the freakiest places on the planet in its <Travel> section.

Chernobyl Amusement Park, Sedlec Ossuary, Aokigahara Forest, Akodessewa Fetish Market, La Isla de las Muñecas, Battleship Island, Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital.

A typical coal mine that was thriving in the 50s but was left alone after the mine’s closure. The terrible truth of Battleship Island.

The scar that can never be healed: Compulsory mobilization. In 1938, during the Japanese colonial era, a strange job placement started in the Korean countryside.

When a Japanese company requested the government to assign people, Koreans were recruited by region. "We’ll give you enough money and be nice to you, so don’t be afraid!" Due to serious drought and Japan’s Colonial Exploitation Policy, Japan threatened to stop distributing food if people didn’t accept the recruitment.

Korean farmers became war mobilization laborers and were placed in coal mines and installations all over Japan.

Among them, Battleship Island, owned by Mitsubishi industries, was turned into a coal town. Battleship Island was in the limelight with its latest apartments and amusements.

But the horrors were happening in the deep undersea mines behind the fancy spotlights. Lying sideways and mining 12 hours a day in a narrow mine where people couldn’t even straighten their backs.

Never coming out of a blind end in a mine before filling the quota. 50~70 Yen was promised, but...

Food and hospitality, underwear purchase, tax and health insurance fees, working tool renting fees. 5 Yen was received. Even the remaining money was induced to buy Japanese bonds.

Their actual income was zero. It was impossible to go back home with money or send money to their family. The mine 1,000m underground was boiling at 45 degrees Celsius.

The skin was festered due to the seawater. Methane gas was exploding and the ceiling was falling. People were dying often.

Some who were brave enough to try to escape were “hit with a rubber wire taken out from a machine. It was bloody, skin was torn out, and they showed it to us...

Committing suicide might be a better choice. We were all fifteen, sixteen...” -Jang-sub Choi, one of the recruited The victims of forced labor were about 800 people, according to the records and the testimonies.

Among them, 134 people were officially known to be dead from 1925 to 1945.

But it is estimated that the omitted or concealed death toll was a lot more than that. Mitsubishi Industries, the owner of Battleship Island, is still turning away from compensation for the loss and the return of the bodies.

Early 2014, the Japanese Government applied for UNESCO World Heritage listing of 'Battleship Island' and 'Nagasaki Shipyard' for contributing to the modernization of Japan.

Whether listed or not is going to be announced at the UNESCO General Assembly in June of 2015.

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역사채널e The history channel e 지워지지 않는 상처, 강제동원 Hashima (Battleship Island) with English subtitles

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