BBC Hiroshima has visited the survivors of the bomb

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Now, the 88-year-old man waves hands when they trying to move away from memory.

“My father was on the verge of going for work, but suddenly he returned to us and he told us to evacuate immediately,” he remembered. “They say that the streets were filled with the dead, but I remember everything I’m crying. I shouted and shouted.”

The victims’ corpses “melted, so only his eyes would be seen,” Mrs. Lee says that TNT surrounded the equivalent of 15,000 tons of 15,000 tons 420,000 people. The one left in afterMath to identify they were embodied.

“Atomic bomb … The scary weapon is scary.”

80 years have passed the United States to determine the ‘little boy’, in the center of Hirishima, in the center of Hiroshima, dying 70,000 people. Thousands would kill more tens of radiation diseases, burns and dehydration in the coming months.

The destruction carried out by Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing – two World War II, two decisive ending in the Japanese authorities through great Asian shakers – well documented in the last eight decades.

Familizer is less popular about 20% of immediate victims.

Korea was a Japanese colony when the bomb fell for 35 years. At the time 140,000 Korean lived in the decade. Many were moved there forced to work, or to survive in colonial exploitation.

Those who survived atoms survived, along with the descendants, continue to live in the long shadow of that day – to fight against justice that remains unresolved in pain and unresolved long struggle.

“No one takes a liability,” says Shim Jin-Tae, 83-year-old survival. “It’s not a bomb. It’s not the country that protected us. It’s not a forgiveness. Japan doesn’t know. We’re just going to blame and just stay.”

Mr. Shim lives in Hapcheon, South Korea: A small region, living with dozens of Mrs. Lee, has doubled “Korean Hiroshima”.

For Mrs. Lee, the shock of that day has not disappeared – he recorded it as a disease in his body. With skin cancer, Parkinson’s disease and angina, poor blood flow returns to the heart, which usually shows breast pain.

But the more weight is that the pain was not stopped with him. He who supports his son, who supports his kidney failure and is doing dialysis while waiting for a transplant.

“I think it’s due to radiation exposure, but who can prove it?” Ho-Chang Lee says. “It’s hard to check scientifically: genetic tests you should, tiring and expensive.

The Ministry of Health and Wellness (Mohw) said BBC (2020 and 2024) collected genetic data until 2020.

At the time of the bombing of 140,000 Koreans of Hiroshima, many were Hapcheon.

Surrounded by mountains, with a small farm, it was a difficult place to live. Crops were captured by Japanese occupants, drought destroyed the earth and thousands of people left the rural area to Japan. Some were taken into account; Others can eat three meals a day and send your children to school. “

In Japan, however, the Koreans were secondary citizens, often seen in the hardest and most dangerous work. Mr. Shim said his father worked in a ammunition factory as forced employees, and the mother nails into the woods of the wooden ammunition.

After the bomb, this distribution of work has become a dangerous and often fatal job for Koreans in Hiroshiman Korean.

“Korean staff had to clean the dead,” Mr. Shim, Director of the Hapcheon branch of the Collaterary Atomic Bomb victims, tells the BBC Korean. “Initially, they used extensions, but there were too many limbs. Finally they used the dust to collect the corpses and smoked in the school.”

“It was mostly Korean. He was a post-war cleaning and ammunition work.”

According to the study carried out by the Gyeonggi Wellness Foundation, some survivors were forced to clean the waste and restore the bodies. While the Japanese evacuies fled to relatives, the non-local connecting cores stopped in the city, in front of the radioactive fall – and limited access to medical attention.

The combination of these conditions – Poor treatment, dangerous and structural discrimination – all dispropproporally death has been high among the cruises.

According to the victims of the atomic bombs, the Korean trust rate fell by 57.1% compared to the overall rate of 33.7%.

They were exposed to about 70,000 chores. At the end of the year, about 40,000 died.

After the bombing, he giving up Japanese and led to the release of Korean, 23,000 Korean survived home. But they didn’t welcome. As marked as disfigured or damn, they were prejudice in their homeland.

“Hapcheon had a colony of collars already,” explained Mr Shim. “And that picture, people thought that the bombs survived also had skin diseases.”

The survival survivors that survived such stigmas, he added, “suggesting that survival came before the pride.

Mrs. Lee says he saw “with his eyes”.

“People who were badly burned or very poor were tremendously treated,” he remembered. “In our town, some had their backs and faces were so evil, only their eyes were visible. They were discarded and ashamed of marriage.”

Stigma came poverty and difficulties. Then, diseases that do not clean cause came: skin diseases, heart conditions, kidney failure, cancer. Symptoms were everywhere, but no one can explain it.

Over time, the focus went to the second and third generations.

There Jeong-Sun, the second-generation survivors, is avascular necrosis in his change, and can not walk without drag. His first son was born in cerebral palsy.

“My son never walked a single step in her life,” he explains. “And my laws treated me tremendously. They said,” Children were gave birth and don’t you worship the cross?

“The time was an absolute hell.”

For decades, the Korean government did not have an active interest in his victims, with higher priorities as war with northern and economic struggle.

It wasn’t until the bombing of 2019 for over 70 years – Mohw released his first report. This survey was mostly based on questionnaires.

In response to BBC queries, the Ministry has explained before 2019, “No legal basis for financing or research”.

But two separate studies were found that the victims of the second generation were weaker in the face of diseases. From 2005 onwards, the second-generation victim showed that they were much safer than the more general population to support depression, heart disease and anemia.

Against this back, the lady is incredible that the authorities demand the authorities to recognize as a victim of Hiroshima.

“My disease is proof. My son’s disability is proof. This pain is overburn and it is visible,” he explains. “But they don’t recognize it. So what should we do” never to kill without recognizing? “

It was only last month, on July 12, Hiroshima officials visited Hapcheon for the first time to organize vases. Although the first PM has reached the earlier year of Hatoyama Yukio and other private figures, this was the first official visit to current Japanese officials.

“Now in 2025 Japan speaks peace. But no apologies is no sense,” said Junko Ichiba, the long-time peace activist, who defended most of his life by Korean Hiroshima victims.

Officials who visit did not mention or apologies for Japan how Korean people treated in World War II.

Although the Japanese leaders offer forgiveness and memories, many of the south as an offensive or insufficient statement without any formal recognition.

Mrs. Ichiba warns that the Japanese textbook still ignores the history of Korean colonial past, as well as his atomic bomb victim – saying that this invisibility delves only to injustice.

This also adds many perspectives in the lack of responsibility for the Japanese colonial heritage.

Heo Jong, Director of Red Cross, said: “These issues … should be corrected while surviving. For second and third generations, we need to collect evidence and testimonials before it is too late.”

It is not in addition to compensating for survivors such as Mr Shim, it is acknowledgment.

“Memory has more than compensation,” he said. “Our bodies remind us of what we have passed … If we forget, it will happen again. And one day there will be no one left to tell the story.”