UNESCO listing sought for records of WWII forced labor
Social affairsDec 2, 2013
Politicians and historians are pushing to gain UNESCO recognition for documents listing Koreans forced to work for the Japanese during the colonial period (1910-45). The records include the names of hundreds of thousands of Korean victims pressed to serve in the Japanese military or other types of forced labor, in three separate copies each compiled by the Korean government since 1953.The move came shortly after the South Korean government discovered new copies that identified 229,781 Korean war