Sakhalin Residents Come Home After 50 Years of Exile
Sixty Koreans, who have lived on Sakhalin Island, Russia, returned, forever, to South Korea with their families, on Feburuary 24, with the help of the Korean Red Cross.They were forcibly sent to Sakhalin during the Second World War by Japanese imperialists to serve as slave-laborers in coal mines.
Many of them have lived there for over 50 years without any nationalty as they didn't accept Russian nationality.
Lee So Soon, the eldest woman at 88, was born in Kangwon Province.
They will live in the 'Sakhalin Resident's Welfare Center' which is going to be opened on April 2 in Inchon.
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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