South Korean workers planned to set up a worker statue condemning the labor conscription of Koreans by the Japanese imperialists in Japan before any other places of the world from three years ago and have conducted activities to implement it.

On August 24 a worker statue was erected near a pit of the manganese mine in an area of Kyoto, Japan where many Koreans were forced to do slave labor under the Japanese imperialists' rule over Korea.

That day, members of delegations of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and the Federation of Trade Unions of south Korea (FTUK) held a meeting before the statue together with the creators of the statue and compatriots in Japan.

At the meeting speakers said that many Koreans were taken to Japan and forced to do slave labor like beasts of burden and met miserable deaths and after the liberation of Korea, too, they could not return home due to the country's division, subject to all sorts of discrimination and suppression.

They called for putting an end to the history of division.

They expressed the will to make a new history of peace and reunification of the country together with more workers.

Earlier, the KCTU and FTUK attended a meeting for remembering the victims of the explosion of ship Ukishima-maru.