[Photo] Memorial center for forced Korean laborers erected in Sakhalin

On Aug. 30, the Hankyoreh Unification and Culture Foundation and the Busan Korean Sharing Movement celebrated the opening of a memorial center for deceased Korean victims of forced migration and labor under during the Japanese occupation. The victims underwent forced mobilization during their youth and died without any relatives to take of their ashes. The memorial center is located in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin, Russia, where many Koreans were forced to work under the Japanese imperial army. The memorial was completed three years after construction first began, and was built to honor around 7,000 Koreans who never got to go home after their forced migration.