Slaves pay high price to mine salt
By Associated Press in Sinui Island, South Korea | China Daily | Updated: 2015-01-06 07:47
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Kim Seong-baek was forced to work without pay, day after 18-hour day mining the big salt crystals from the sea-fed fields around him. He ran the first chance he got. Half-blind and in rags, Kim grabbed another slave, and the two men-both disabled-headed for the coast.
They were now hunted men on this tiny, remote island where the enslavement of disabled salt farm workers is an open secret.
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