http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-korea-survivors7-2009mar07,0,5420210.storyJohn M. Glionna / Los Angeles Times
Shin Jin-tae, leader of a group of South Korean survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, poses before a memorial to the victims. He and other residents of the South Korean town of Hapcheon are suing the Japanese government for mental trauma.
By John M. Glionna
March 7, 2009
Reporting from Hapcheon, South Korea -- Shin Jin-tae says he lives in the unluckiest town on Earth.
During World War II, when the Japanese occupied Korea, thousands of residents of this small farming community were shipped to Japan to work in munitions factories.
Their destination: Hiroshima.