UBE, Japan: On a crisp February morning, four elderly Korean men bowed their heads towards Japan's Seto Inland Sea as the surf lapped near their shoes. They were paying respects to relatives entombed in a coal mine deep beneath their feet 80 years ago - among thousands of Korean bodies scattered across Jap
One of the challenges at Chosei is the expense and logistics of excavating bodies from a submerged mine that extends at least 1 km out to sea and nearly 40 metres underground.
According to a 2007 report on the Chosei mine commissioned by South Korea, workers mainly drafted from poor farming towns in Korea lived in packed dormitories surrounded by high fencing and were regularly beaten by Japanese supervisors. Jeon Seok-ho, whose father died in the Chosei Coal Mine Disaster of 1942, poses for a photograph with old photos taken when he was an elementary school student in Japan, at his home in Daegu, South Korea, on Feb 4, 2023. Now 89 and using a hearing aid and walking stick, Jeon Seok-ho vividly remembers the morning his father died in the mine when he was eight years old.
Jeon Seok-ho, whose father died in the Chosei Coal Mine Disaster of 1942, shows old photos of his parents and certification of graduation of his Japanese elementary school, during an interview with Reuters at his home in Daegu, South Korea, on Feb 4, 2023.
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