The BBC visits the Korean survivor of the Hiroshima bomb.

(On August 6, 1945, at 08:15, the nuclear bomb falls beyond the Hiroshima and falls like a stone through the sky, and Lee Jung -soo was on his way to elementary school

The age of 88 is waving as if trying to push memories.

“My father tried to leave the job, but suddenly came back and told me to evacuate immediately,” she recalled. “They say that the streets are filled with the dead, but I was so shocked that I was crying. I just cried and cried.”

Mr. Lee said that the body of the victims said, “It was only visible and melted.” What remains in the aftermath is too bad.

“Atomic bomb … it’s a terrible weapon.”

80 years have passed since the United States blasted the first atomic bomb, the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, and about 70,000 people immediately killed. Tens of thousands of people will die in the next few months due to radiation bottles, burns and dehydration.

The devastation caused by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki decided to rule the Second World War and Japan’s Imperial Rule throughout the large -scale Swasu of Asia.

Less well is that about 20%of the immediate victims are Korean.

Korea has been a Japanese colony for 35 years when the bomb fell. At that time, about 140,000 Koreans lived in Hiroshima. Many people moved there or survived by colonial exploitation due to forced labor mobilization.

Those who survived atom bomb continue to live in the long shadows of the day with their descendants. Decades of fighting for dismantling, pain, and unresolved definition.

Sim Jin-tae, a 83-year-old survivor, said, “No one is responsible.” “It’s not a country that has dropped the bomb. It’s not a country that has not protected us. The United States never apologized. Japan pretends not to know. Korea does not get better.

Shim is currently living in Hapcheon in Korea. The small county said dozens of survivors, such as him and Lee, called “Hiroshima in Korea.”

In the case of Mr. Lee, the shock of the day did not disappear. It was engraved on the body with a disease. She currently lives with skin cancer, Parkinson’s disease and angina, and angina, which is due to poor blood flow, is generally a chest pain.

But more weight is that the pain did not stop with her. Her son Ho -chan, who supports her, was diagnosed with a renovation and is experiencing dialysis while waiting for transplantation.

“I think it’s because of radiation exposure, but who can prove it?” Ho -chan says. “It is difficult to verify scientifically. Genetic test is required.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has collected genetic data from 2020 and 2024 to the BBC that it will continue further research by 2029. “To the second and third -generation survivors,” he said, “We will consider expanding the definition of the victim.”

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

Surrounded by a mountain with a small farmland, this was a difficult place to live. The crops were seized by Japanese occupants, drought devastated the land, and thousands of people left rural countries during the war. Some were forced to be drafted. Others said, “I was tempted by the promise that I could eat three times a day and send children to school.

But in Japan, Koreans were second -class citizens. SHIM worked as a forced worker at the ammunition factory, and his mother ruined his nails in a wooden ammunition box.

In the aftermath of the bomb, the distribution of labor was interpreted as dangerous and deadly to Hiroshima Koreans.

Shim, the director of the Half -on Governor of the Korea Atomic Bomb Victims Association, said, “Korean workers had to clean the dead,” the BBC Korean said. “At first, I used a stretcher, but there were too many bodies. In the end they used dust to collect the bodies and burn them in school.”

“Most of the people who did this were Koreans. Most postwar cleaning and ammunition work was done by us.”

According to a study by Gyeonggi Welfare Foundation, some survivors had to restore debris and bodies. The evacuation of Japan has fled to relatives, but Koreans who do not have local relations remain in the city and are exposed to radioactive falls and are limited to medical services.

All combinations of these conditions, such as poor treatment, dangerous tasks and structural discrimination, have all contributed to the unbalanced high number of deaths among Koreans.

According to the Korea Atomic Bomb Victims Association, Korea’s mortality rate was 57.1%, 57.1%compared to about 33.7%.

About 70,000 Koreans were exposed to bombs. About 40,000 people died by the end of the year.

After the bombing, about 23,000 Korean survivors returned home from Japan’s surrender and Korean liberation. But they were not welcome. Branded by transformed or cursed, they faced prejudice in their hometown.

“HAPCHEON already had leprosy colonies,” SHIM said. “And because of that image, people thought that bomb survivors had skin disease.”

Such a stigma added that survivors have made silence about their difficulties.

Lee said she saw this with her eyes.

“Burning badly or extremely poor people were treated terribly,” she recalled. “In our village, some people were so scared that they were so scared. They were rejected and avoided in their marriage.”

There was poverty and difficulty with the stigma. Then there were no clear causes such as skin diseases, heart condition, renal failure, and cancer. The symptoms were anywhere, but no one could explain.

Over time, the focus was converted to the second and third generation.

The second-generation survivor, Han Jeong-Sun, is suffering from vascular necrosis on his butt and cannot walk without dragging himself. Her first son was born as a cerebral palsy.

“My son has never stepped into his life,” she says. “And my son -in -law treated me terribly. They said, ‘You have a terrible child and you are stupid too. Are you here to ruin my family?’

“That was an absolute hell.”

For decades, even the South Korean government has been treated as a higher priority with war with North Korea, and even the South Korean government has not been actively interested in its own victims.

70 years after the bombings, MOHW published the first finding report. This survey was mainly based on the questionnaire.

In response to the BBC survey, the ministry said before 2019 that “there is no legal basis for financing or official investigation.”

But two separate studies have found that second -generation victims are more vulnerable to disease. Since 2005, one of the second generation victims is much more likely to suffer from depression, heart disease and anemia than the general population, and the other in 2013 found that the average disability registration rate was almost twice the country.

In contrast to this background, Mr. Han is amazed at the fact that the authorities continue to demand evidence that the authorities and her son will recognize Hiroshima as the victims of Hiroshima.

“My bottle is evidence. The son’s disorder is evidence. This pain delivers the generation and becomes noticeable,” she says. “But they will not recognize it, so what should we do?

On July 12, Hiroshima officials first visited Halfon and laid flowers in the memorial hall. Former Hatoyama Yukio and other personal figures have come before, but this was the first official visit to Japanese officials.

“In 2025, Japan talks about peace, but peace without apples is meaningless,” says Junko ICHIBA, a long -time Japanese peace activist who has advocating most lives for Hiroshima victims.

She pointed out that visitors did not mention or apologize for how Japan treated Koreans during World War II and World War II.

Although many Japanese leaders have suggested apologies and regrets, many Koreans consider these emotions to be inconsistent or insufficient without formal recognition.

Ichiba said that Japanese textbooks still omit the history of Korean colonial past history and atomic bomb victims.

This adds what many people see as a widespread lack of responsibility for Japanese colonial heritage.

“This problem must be solved while survivors are still alive. In the second and third generations, this problem must be collected before the second and third generation.”

It is not a reward for survivors such as Shim.

“Memory is more important than compensation,” he said. “Our bodies remember what we have experienced.