On 20 August 1942, Yin Chang-yu was taken by train from Hwaiyang County, Gangwon Province, Korea to the Hungnam plant of the Japan Nitrogenous Fertilizer Company. During the war Japan forcibly brought Koreans to various mines and factories to make up for labor shortages. Designated as a military factory after the start of the Asia-Pacific War, the factory, under its colonial and callous management style, treated many Koreans workers as “expendable goods”. Thus, in an explosion of nitric acid in the factory on 15 September 1943, Yin was critically injured and knocked unconscious, losing an eye in the process. The scars covering his body from the burns haunted him for a long time. While carrying these unforgettable wounds from the Japanese colonial period he lived through the postwar era.
- area The Fifteen Year War
- theme Victimizers and Victims of the Fifteen Year War
- explanation TOP My Life with Wounds that will Never Heal
Yin Chang-yu
Yin Chang-yu
On 20 August nineteen forty-two, Yin Chang-yu was taken by train from Hwaiyang County, Gangwon Province, Korea to the Hungnam plant of the Japan Nitrogenous Fertilizer Company. During the war Japan forcibly brought Koreans to various mines and factories to make up for labor shortages. Designated as a military factory after the start of the Asia-Pacific War, the factory, under its colonial and callous management style, treated many Koreans workers as “expendable goods”. Thus, in an explosion of nitric acid in the factory on 15 September nineteen forty-three, Yin was critically injured and knocked unconscious, losing an eye in the process. The scars covering his body from the burns haunted him for a long time. While carrying these unforgettable wounds from the Japanese colonial period he lived through the postwar era.