By Honorary Reporter Doina Arhire from Romania

Illustration= Doina Arhire

This drawing shows deserted buildings and rocks on Hashima Island painted in grey at the site of a former underground coal mine.

Just in front of the entrance is a little green tree with branches of small and green leaves tied with colored ribbons; the ribbons are part of a Korean custom for making wishes come true. Despite the barren landscape, grass grows amid a blue sky.

Maybe this is a timid beginning but the first step is always the hardest in properly recognizing historical facts. But history should always be presented as it happened and never whitewashed. Presenting the raw but accurate truth is the only way wartime atrocities that those on the island can never recur.

chaey0726@korea.kr


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