Abstract
Please tell me I'm the victim! The Cowra Breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when at least 1,104 Japanese prisoners of the Pacific War during World War II attempted to escape from the Prisoner Camp. This article examines moral status and the direction of Association for Korean Remembrance at Cowra (AKRC) which has identified victims of involuntary military services under Japanese rule. Efforts must aim at righting wrongs of past history, but the consequence of political and economic inequalities has disrupted and changed their respective relationships. This study also indicates the issues that despite the perpetrator (Japan) has a tendency to distort the history with the financial support and friendship between two countries and their people, the national interest and support of the victim (Korea) is insufficient. It is therefore important to cultivate the leadership of overseas Koreans and to encourage them to form a broad overseas Korean network in relations to foreign legal and institutional systems of righting wrongs of past history. It may also be a reaction to the number of the history of international Non-Government Organizations that would fulfil a useful role.