Nat'l Assembly adopts resolution urging Japan to withdraw UNESCO bid for Sado mine

• Published date: 28 February 2023
• Publication title: The Korea Times

Korea's National Assembly adopted a resolution on Monday, urging Japan to withdraw its bid to register a former gold mine linked to wartime forced labor as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Last month, the Japanese government submitted a recommendation letter again to the U.N. body for the listing of the mine on Sado Island, after the initial version, delivered in February last year, was deemed incomplete.

Many Koreans were forced into hard labor in the mine during World War II, while Korea was under Japan's brutal colonization.

The resolution expressed...