The shocking reality of the Brothers Welfare Center was highlighted.



The first story after the regular formation was revealed on SBS 'The Story of the Day You Bit Your Tail' (hereafter 'Kkokomu'), which was broadcast on the 21st.



On this day's broadcast, the 'Brother Welfare Center' incident was highlighted under the subtitle 'Serial disappearance case 1987, human cleaning'.



In September 1982, Yeonungi, the son of Jangsu Jeong, a car dealer, suddenly disappeared. The 12-year-old Yeon-woong went to Busan Station to play with his brother at the briquette shop and disappeared, and he is now fifty. Jeong Yeon-woong, who turned 50, shed tears, saying, "I was 12 at the time and I was confined for about 4 years and 7 months."



Yeon-woong, who went to Busan Station with his brother at the briquette shop, waited for his friend. But two men came up to them and took them somewhere. And a year later the same thing happened. 7-year-old and 5-year-old Hye-yul's siblings got on the train to meet their mother, who left for Daejeon after divorce. And while I fell asleep, I arrived at the last stop, Busan Station. At this time, those who took Yeon-woong also appeared in front of the siblings. They offered to find a home for the siblings, and so the two children went missing.



It was the so-called serial disappearance of children. And the identities of those who took the children are the police. They drove the children into cars, took them somewhere, and took mugshots. And after that, the children were called by numbers instead of names.



People of all ages, wearing the same blue sweatshirts, gathered in dozens of buildings and became robots just as they feared being assaulted. And what the children did day and night was to make wardrobes, shoes, toys, etc. Also, adults built buildings day and night.



A huge factory, a huge fortress, and a forced labor facility, this is the Brothers Welfare Center, the Korean version of Auschwitz. And the people brought here are vagrants. A vagrant refers to a person who wanders around without a fixed place of residence and work and leads a prodigal life, but at that time, the standard for a vagrant was that he fell asleep on a subway or train and went to the last stop, watched TV at a train station or bus terminal, or drank outdoors. These were people who had been drinking and had not shaved their beards for days. Even if one of these was true, he was considered a vagrant.



Yeon-woong, who had been accustomed to the life of a welfare center, prayed in the bathroom every day. However, contrary to my prayer that I wanted to go home, two years passed. And one day, I met my father, whom I had been waiting for so long. However, Yeon-woong could not reach his father.



The father Yeon-woong met again was wearing a blue sweatshirt from the Brothers Welfare Center. In fact, after the disappearance of the child, Yeon-woong's father protested several times to the police to find Yeon-woong, and the police regarded him as a vagrant and sent him to the Brothers Welfare Center.



Yeon-woong had no choice but to turn away even after he found his father. My father spoke to Yeon-woong like that. He carried the rice cakes he received during the holidays for several days, then handed it to his son to avoid surveillance.



The hellish work at the Brothers Welfare Center did not end there. The officials there sexually harassed and assaulted young boys and women, and Yeon-woong was not free either.



In the end, Yeon-woong escaped, but the eyes around him looked at Yeon-woong as a vagrant, and as a vagrant report, Yeon-woong returned to the welfare center and had to be beaten horribly. And before I died, I had to give up and live day by day at the thought that I couldn't go out there.



Then one day, prosecutor Kim Yong-won, who went hunting while enjoying his vacation, witnessed Ulsan labor at the Brothers Welfare Center. When he saw the scene of forced labor by mobilizing Sheppert and armed guards, he immediately launched an investigation and confirmed that 168 students at the Brothers Welfare Center had been working for six months.



Prosecutor Kim Yong-won headed to Busan Brothers Welfare Center with a search and seizure warrant. The moment the heavy iron door of the Brothers Welfare Center opened, those who saw it could not keep their mouths shut. With 60 buildings, factories, churches, schools, barbershops, and baths, this place was nothing more than a republic.



The Brothers Welfare Center of 8,759 pyeong, which is about four times the size of a soccer field, accommodates 3,164 people, of which over 900 are minors. In addition, a psychiatric ward was also built here to accommodate the inmates.



Prosecutor Kim Yong-won immediately questioned the person in charge at the terrible scene. However, the director was nowhere to be found, and only the large iron safe in the director's office was occupied with a suspicious look. When the key to the safe was not released, the prosecutor forced the safe to be opened with an oxygen welding machine, and was shocked to see what was inside.



The safe contained a total of 2 billion won worth of money at the time, including 5,000 US dollars, 5.46 million yen, and 30 bankbooks. The prosecutor immediately summoned the director. Director Park, who was summoned, was too proud. He was a person who was even awarded a commendation by the president at the time. It was even revealed that the country had produced a promotional film for Park Won-jang, which shocked the public.



Director Park, known as an angel of a vagrant who devotes all his fortunes and devotes himself as a living myth in the welfare world, was in fact an absolute power and absolute evil called Abbai to the students. He was a boxing fanatic from a military career, and he decided to build a facility to accommodate the vagrants, remembering the Ministry of Home Affairs Ordinance No.



When the government paid operating expenses and even made a rule that allowed them to work, he gathered vagrants and forced them to work, raising the Brothers Welfare Center. And when the 1988 Seoul Olympics were decided in 1981, the Brothers Welfare Center flourished even more.



The country carried out environmental beautification ahead of the Olympic Games. Human cleaning began, removing not only ugly facilities, but also people who don't want to look good for foreign guests. It was to demolish the shantytown, clear away the people wandering the streets, and separate the vagrants to an invisible place.



When they catch a vagrant, they give incentives to their work grades, so public officials actively participated in the recruitment of vagrants. In this way, the Brothers Welfare Center became one kingdom.



The Brothers Welfare Center was a haven for crimes such as illegal confinement, assault, sexual assault, forced labor, and embezzlement. In addition, a total of 513 people were found to have died there, but this was only the director's claim, and the testimonies of the students were different. Contrary to the claim of the director that they all died from illness, there were testimonies about burial of corpses and incineration of bodies, and even testimonies about sales for dissection.



A full-scale investigation was supposed to proceed, but a strange movement was detected. The mayor of Busan and the chief prosecutor put pressure on the prosecutor in charge of the investigation into the Brothers Welfare Center. The prosecutor's every move was monitored and eavesdropped, and the president blocked the intention of the prosecutor to ask for life imprisonment, saying, "Director Park is a wonderful person.



After the torture and death of Park Jong-cheol in 1987, anger against the dictatorship reached its peak, and the June uprising broke out. In the midst of this, if the Brothers Welfare Center problem arises, it poses a serious threat to the government. As a result, the government was in a hurry to minimize the Brothers Welfare Center incident.



In the end, the investigation into the Busan headquarters was stopped, and only the special confinement and embezzlement charges were prosecuted at the Ulsan construction site. In the first trial, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a fine of 680 million won. However, in the second trial, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison and a fine of 0 won. And the Supreme Court declared not guilty of the crime of special confinement. The reason was interpreted as an act in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Home Affairs and was interpreted as a legitimate duty act. The final sentence was 2 years and 6 months in prison and a fine of 0 won.



Director Park, who opened a welfare facility after being released from prison, continued to receive the national budget and accepted the disabled and mentally ill patients. He also carried out several projects, including spas, gyms, and large-scale golf courses in Australia.



When an investigation into the Brothers Welfare Center began, the detained children were sent to another welfare facility. He was busy hiding the children again without making any effort to find his family. A few months later, Yeon-woong, who barely made contact with his relatives, was sobbing when he heard the news of his father's death. The father, who came out of the Brothers Welfare Center, worked as a daily laborer in order to provide even a rent room to live with his son. But a few months later, he was found collapsed in a cold kitchen. The last thing Yeon-woong saw of his father was at the Brothers Welfare Center.



Fifty-year-old Yeon-woong shed tears, saying that if he could see his father again, he wanted to say that he loved him again.



The Hye-yul siblings found their father after 8 years. Hye-yul, who was full of resentment about why he didn't come to see his father and why he didn't come to pick him up, was heartbroken when he found out later that his father had traveled all over the country looking for the two of them.



Children who can't talk about the Brothers Welfare Center because they are afraid of the stigma of a vagrant. However, in the summer of 2012, Han Jong-sun, a victim survivor, said, "I am a child who survived hell," and proclaimed the story of the brother welfare center to the world with her face and name. One by one, the children who were hiding began to gain courage and called for a re-investigation.



However, in 2016, director Park died and tried to punish him, but he could not be punished. Nevertheless, the victims went out to find out the truth, gathered data and testimonies, and kept shouting to the world. In response to the desperate cry of the victims, the state started a re-investigation 33 years after the incident occurred. The case of the 2nd Truth and Reconciliation Commission No. 1 was the case at the Busan Brothers Welfare Center.



In this case, which is still under investigation, storytellers and storytellers prayed for the truth to come out this time.



Jeon So-mi, who heard today's story, was heartbroken, saying, "I don't know how the word vagrant was accepted at that time long before the word was born, but my heart aches. Everyone should never be treated like this, but this has happened."



Jang Hang-jun said, "It is a crime committed by the mobilization of the national organization. Even if the dead perpetrator has no choice, an investigation must be made on who arrested whom and who put pressure on the prosecutor at the time. There is no law that says not to," he raised his voice.



The last surviving children said, "What we want the most is the very ordinary that you enjoy.It seems to be my great wish to enjoy that ordinary again."



(SBS Entertainment News Editor Kim Hyo-jung)