Anchor: A video has been unveiled in Times Square in New York, showing the forced labor of Koreans on Japan’s Hashima Island. The aim of the video is to raise awareness about the wartime forced labor on the island, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Our Kim Soyon has more.
 
Report: A video about Japan's wartime forced labor of Koreans on Hashima Island was unveiled on an electronic display in New York's Times Square on Monday morning local time.
 
The 15 second long video titled "The Truth of Hashima Island" was played on a 66 by 13 meter electronic board, the largest in Times Square.
 
Professor Seo Kyoung-duk from Sungshin Woman's University, who oversaw the video's creation, said Hashima Island was where Korean laborers were drafted during World War II.
 
He said the video shows the historical fact that Hashima was an "island of hell" where some 120 casualties were reported.
 
Professor Seo said that when the island was added to the UNESCO World Heritage site list two years ago, the Japanese government promised to establish an information center on its wartime forced labor, but has yet to do so.
 
The video clip will run a thousand times a day from Monday to Sunday aiming to play some seven thousand times. Seo said the latest campaign in Times Square is to promote Tokyo's historical distortions to the world.
 
Hashima, also known as the Batteship Island, is 18 kilometers from Nagasaki Port and is the size of about two baseball fields.
 
It densely houses Japan's first reinforced concrete buildings constructed by Mitsubishi in 1916. From afar, this resembles the shape of a battleship, hence where the island got its name.
 
Mitsubishi drafted laborers from Korea and China to have them dig up coal from the island's underwater coal mines.
 
In 2015, Japan applied for World Heritage status for the facilities on the island claiming they are the legacy of the first successful industrial revolution achieved in the non-western region. 
Kim Soyon, KBS World Radio News.