Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Cenotaph

This guide to the Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Cenotaph in Hiroshima opens with Yi U, a Korean prince walking to his post near Honkawa Bridge on the morning of August sixth, 1945, one of as many as twenty thousand Koreans killed by the bomb that day, many of them forced laborers with nowhere else to be. It follows why Korean survivors chose this exact spot for a monument in 1970, carved with two dragons resting on a turtle whose shell, in Korean belief, carries souls to heaven. For twenty-nine years the cenotaph stood just outside the boundary of the Peace Memorial Park, while the city's official memorials sat inside it.