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Japanese Empire Forced Labor Artifacts to be Publicly Purchased at the Korean History Museum
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- The Korean National Forced Labor History Museum will be publicly purchasing artifacts related to Japanese forced labor from June 11 to July 11.
- The eligible artifacts include a variety of materials related to railroads, sanitation, infectious diseases, vaccinations, Russian Sakhalin, Southeast Asia, and the central and western Pacific region, including maps, registers, photographs, and films.
- Anyone can apply, including private collectors, cultural property dealers, corporations, and organizations. Application forms can be downloaded from the museum website and submitted by mail or in person.
The National Museum of Korean Forced Labor under Japanese Imperialism announced that it will publicly purchase artifacts related to forced labor under Japanese rule from June 11 to July 11. The museum publicly purchases artifacts for exhibitions, education, and research related to forced labor under Japanese rule.
The artifacts to be purchased include railway-related artifacts from the Japanese colonial period and artifacts related to hygiene, infectious diseases, and vaccinations. Also included are forced labor materials from Sakhalin, Russia, Southeast Asia, and the central and western Pacific regions, Japanese military "comfort women" and Korean women laborers, official employment advertisement notices published in newspapers at the time, forced labor victims' contact items, and other forced labor-related materials.
Types of artifacts include maps, registers, photos, films, clothing, consumer goods, flags, certificates, symptoms, notebooks, albums, promotional materials, pictorials, letters, personal accounts, comprehensive works, and court records. Anyone can apply, including individuals, cultural property traders, corporations, organizations, and individuals. However, materials with unclear origins, stolen or looted items, illegally obtained materials, or jointly owned items are excluded from the purchase.
Application forms can be downloaded from the museum's website (fomo.or.kr/museum) and filled out. Applications can only be submitted by mail or in person.
The museum opened in Daeyeon-dong, Nam-gu, Busan in 2015. It is a memorial facility for forced labor victims and their families, a space for education on forced labor under Japanese rule, and exhibits materials that investigate and record the inhuman forced labor practices of the Empire of Japan, a war criminal country in the Asia-Pacific War.
