Government to Hold Its Own Memorial for Sado Mine Victims of Forced Conscription on the 21st

The South Korean government will hold a memorial ceremony on the morning of November 21 in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, to honor the Korean victims who were forcibly conscripted to work at the Sado Mine. This marks the second consecutive year that South Korea is organizing its own memorial ceremony, as the Japanese government has failed to fulfill the detailed commitments it made when the Sado Mine was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 13, this year's ceremony will be attended by Lee Hyuk, the South Korean Ambassador to Japan, as the government representative, along with bereaved families and government officials. After the ceremony, participants plan to visit key sites related to Korean laborers to pay tribute to those who suffered forced conscription at the Sado Mine.

The memorial ceremony organized by the Japanese government was held on September 13, but the South Korean government did not attend. This was because the Japanese side's memorial address did not sufficiently acknowledge the forced nature of the labor imposed on the Korean victims.

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