Brothers Home was the biggest among these facilities. [9] ... In December 1986, Kim Yong-won, a prosecutor from the District Prosecutors' Office of Ulsan, [1] set out on an investigation after hearing rumors from a local hunter that a group of laborers were logging in a nearby mountain while being assaulted by guards armed with clubs. [13]

May 30, 2020 · According to testimonies and evidence gathered from the site, detainees say they were used as slave labour at construction sites, farms, and factories during the 1970s and 80s. They were also...

Jan 6, 2025 · Here’s what you need to know about if Squid Game is based on a true story, including the alleged 1986 case and the Brothers’ Home.

Dec 22, 2021 · South Korea’s infamous Brothers Home welfare centre was supposed to provide shelter and care for the homeless. Instead, it was a house of horrors where inmates were illegally confined, brutally...

Explore the history of Brothers' Home, a detention facility in Busan, South Korea (1975-1987). Discover official records and historical analysis.

Aug 25, 2022 · SEOUL — From 1976 to 1987, military dictators in South Korea swept roughly 38,000 people off the streets, corralling them into a welfare center called Brothers Home. The facility was supposed...

Jun 15, 2023 · In 1986, Brothers Home purchased 250,000 tablets of chlorpromazine, enough for 342 people to take the antipsychotic medication twice daily for one year; a huge order considering there were 395 inmates at the group residence’s psychiatric facility.

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Aug 24, 2022 · A landmark report by the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission released on Wednesday comes 35 years after a prosecutor first exposed the horrors at Brothers Home, in the southern port city of Busan. It reveals an attempt to cover-up incriminating evidence which would have confirmed a state-sponsored crime.

Sep 1, 2022 · Brothers Home showed no mercy, even taking ordinary children from their families: Choi Seung-woo, a 13 year old boy who was walking home from school, was wrongfully accused by a police officer of stealing bread, pressured to confess to the crime he had not committed, and forced inside a freezer dump truck.