​Decades After a ‘Living Hell,’ Korean Victims​ Win a Step Toward Redress

Park Sun-yi, a victim of Brothers Home, at a news conference on Wednesday at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission office in Seoul.Credit...Ahn Young-Joon/Associated PressSEOUL — From 1976 to 1987, military dictators in South Korea \u200bswept roughly \u200b38,000 people off the streets, corralling them into a welfare center called Brothers Home. The facility was supposed to feed and teach what the government called vagrants — many of them minors — and train them for jobs.

Instead, Brothers Home turned out to be a house of nightmares.

Many were beaten, raped and used for slave labor. More than 650 people died while being held there illegally and unbeknown to their families, according to…