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Before Liberation Day, records showing that children, who were only in their early and mid-teens during the Japanese colonial rule, were taken to forced labor were released for the first time. A 12-year-old boy who was supposed to be in school was pushed to root out 15,000 sick barley.

Reporter Lim Tae-woo will tell you.

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1944, the end of the Japanese colonial period.

This document contains the records of forced labor of students at Janggi National School in Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do.

It contains the details and number of labor that a 6th grader who is about 12 years old should do, but the schedule is tight from May to November.

The amount of labor was also harsh. In May, when the sick barley was picked, one person had to remove 15,000 roots, but the student who worked sincerely evaluated him as a'sickle master'.

[Lee Young-do/ Curator of the National Archives of Records: Every time I mobilized, I picked up 4,000 waivers. That's not the amount you can draw in an hour or two. Isn't it that you're going to be picking this stalk (sick ear) from the barley field all day?]


When you become a middle school student, forced mobilization becomes more severe.

In 1943, in the student register of Gunsan Middle School, it was written that they participated not only in'Labor Security University', which means mobilization of forced labor, but also in the cold season training every grade.

They even gave middle school students military training.

The student, drafted the following year after graduation, was eventually taken to the front line.

[Lee Young-do / Curator of the National Archives: People who cross the Manchurian border, pass through Nanjing, and are pushed into the battlefield through one of these students (you can see.)] With the

slogan'working soon education', he was forced to mobilize from the fourth grader of elementary school. The history of the late Japanese colonial period.

Records containing cruel facts are displayed at the National Library of Korea.

(Video editing: Cheolho Chae, VJ: Hyungjin Kim, CG: Jinhoe Choi)