KARUNA SHINSHO, CNN ANCHOR, ASIA TONIGHT: Well, for a South Korean survivor of those atrocities, 50 years have not been the anger or the pain. Sohn Jie-Ae reports.</s>SOHN JIE-AE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Park Bong-Ki knows first hand what it is to be a victim to Japan's military ambitions. When he was 22 years old, Park was taken from his farm, and forced to work in the Japanese military air base with more than 1,000 other Koreans. More than 55 years later, the memories still haunt him.</s>PARK BONG-KI, WAR CAMP SURVIVOR (through translator): I was beaten until my back broke. I still hurt from the injuries. I don't know how I survived.</s>JIE-AE: Park says nearly half the workers on that air base didn't, and died from starvation and fatigue. Park is one of more than a million Koreans who were forced to work for Japanese military bases, mines and factories during World War II, while Japan occupied the Korean peninsula. Hundreds of thousands of Korean men were forced into the Japanese army, and thousands of Korean women forced to become sex slaves. Those Koreans who survived the ordeal were especially angry over the Japanese prime minister's visit to the shrine which houses some war criminals. Some gathered in a Seoul park to burn the Japanese flag, Japanese products, and an effigy of the Japanese prime minister -- and called for Tokyo to repent.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I'm so angry. I can't even talk about it. It just shows the Japanese still haven't given up their ambition to invade other countries.</s>JIE-AE: But this day, Park did get a chance to voice his anger. He and other survivors marched to the Japanese embassy, and Park got to personally hand over a protest letter, something that he says helps him deal with the bitter memories. Sohn Jie-Ae, CNN, Seoul.
More Than 55 Years Later, Memories Still Haunt Korean Survivor