80 years on, Korean survivors of WWII atomic bombs still suffer

A woman prays at the Peace Memorial Park ahead of the memorial service to mark the 80th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack, in the city of Hiroshima early on August 6, 2025. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)

Bae Kyung-mi was five years old when the Americans dropped "Little Boy", the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

Like thousands of other ethnic Koreans working in the city at the time, her family kept the horror a secret.