Foreign ministry officials from Seoul and nine family members of the victims gathered at a former dormitory for Korean forced laborers near the Sado Island ... 60 people attended Sunday’s ...

The Sado Island gold mines, which operated for nearly ... Although seating for about 100 people was arranged, the absence of the South Korean delegation left several seats vacant.

South Korea will not be attending a November memorial ceremony in Japan to honor people subjected to wartime forced labor in the Sado Island Gold Mines, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said on ...

UNESCO called on Japan to remove areas that were largely developed during the Meiji Era (1868-1912) and onward from the proposed Sado Island Gold Mines site, which was one of the world’s leading ...