He ran the first chance he had. The sun beat down on the sea-fed fields where Kim Seong-baek was forced to work without pay, day after 18-hour day mining the big salt crystals that blossomed in the mud around him. Half blind and in rags, Kim grabbed another slave, and the two disabled men headed for the coast. Far from the glittering capital of Seoul, they were now hunted men on the remote island where the enslavement of disabled salt farm workers is an open secret. “It was a living hell,” Kim said in a recent series of interviews whose details were corroborated by court records and lawyers,…

Disabled slaves tell of ‘living hell’ on remote South Korean salt farms
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