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Hiroshima's Korean Legacy

Broadcast on January 26, 2002/49 minutes

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A program about the reminiscences of a Korean survivor of the atomic bomb, who lived through some of the more turbulent periods of both Japan and South Korea. Hapcheon in South Korea is home to more than 500 Korean survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yi Sunghee was born in Japan; he was 14 years old when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Yi went to Korea after Japan's surrender, and married after the Korean War. He was finally issued with an atomic-bomb victim registration booklet in 1995, entitling him to health care in Japan. Yi experienced various health problems over the years, and was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He befriends a Japanese doctor, Hiroshi Maruya, who urges him to make a record of his experiences

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