‘The world is now reported by a correspondent’ Japanese warships distorted the history of forced mobilization, a UNESCO World Heritage Site-Biz Entertainment

[비즈엔터 홍선화 기자]

‘The world is now reported by a correspondent’ conveys the fiction of’Gunhamdo Island’, which has been registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In KBS1’s report on the 3rd,’The World is Now’, which is broadcasted on the 3rd, focuses on the UNESCO industrial heritage’Gunhamdo’, which hides the history of forced mobilization of Koreans.

The island of demons, warships, where Koreans were forcibly conscripted during the Japanese occupation. On the 31st of last month, the warship exhibition hall celebrated its one year opening. The Japanese government promised to convey the fact that it was controversial even when it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015, but the opened exhibition hall is filled with records denying forced labor.

Still, the Japanese government insisted that there was no discrimination against Koreans and’slave labor’ on the island of warships, and that the salary was properly paid. The KBS interview team obtained the position of the Japanese government and the data that were completely contradicted by the Japanese government. In 1946, shortly after the end of the war, the Japanese authorities instructed Mitsubishi Corporation to create a’unpaid list of salaries, etc. for Koreans’.

Only the revealed unpaid amount is 224,000,862 yen. A whopping 1299 people are paying in arrears, which is equivalent to billions of dollars in current value. The Japanese government claims that the right to claim unpaid wages to individuals was extinguished by the 1965 Korea-Japan Claims Agreement, but personal assets have nothing to do with the agreement between the governments. The Korean government is currently requesting UNESCO to cancel the registration of Gunhamdo Island as a World Heritage Site, and will be discussed at the UNESCO conference in July.