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Aka Japan's modern industrial facilities, including a warship, were listed on the UNESCO World Heritage list five years ago. An information center introducing this has been released to the media recently, but it turned out that it was only a matter of contrary to the promises made at the time of registration to add the fact that our people were forced to mobilize.

Reporter Kim Young-ah reports.

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In 2015, UNESCO registered 23 modern industrial facilities in Japan, such as the Hashima Coal Mine in Nagasaki, Japan, and a warship, as a World Heritage Site.

At the time, the Korean government opposed Japan's listing, saying that Japan would beautify the damage of forced mobilization during the Japanese colonial era, and Japan promised to take steps to comprehensively understand history.

[Japan Ambassador Sato/Yunsuko (2015): I will understand that many Koreans have been forced to work in harsh environments against their will.]

The so-called Industrial Heritage Information Center created according to this promise today (15th) Open to the public.

Although it opened in March, it was closed after a corona incident and opened after two and a half months.

The fact that forced mobilization was mentioned only at the end of the timeline explaining the status of World Heritage registration, and it was confirmed that only testimony that suited the taste of Japan that there were no harsh acts and discrimination against Koreans on the Korean Peninsula was exhibited through videos.

Critics say that it is unfaithful in Japan, unlike the promise to explain the history of forced mobilization without mercy.

It is said that our government will take diplomatic action.