- The rural island chain, off southwest coast, is home to thriving slave trade
- Tales of slavery using disabled people repeatedly emerged in last ten years
- Recent investigation found more than 100 workers were receiving no pay
- Police and officials who knew about islands have not faced punishment
- Rescued: Kim Seong-baek was released from one of the salt farms situated in the remote island group off the southwestern coast of South Korea and he has recounted his harrowing experience of slavery to reporters
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
Friday, January 2, 2015
Inside SOUTH Korea’s slave farms where cruel families send mentally disabled relatives to toil in fields rather than care for them
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