Gyeongseong Creature
"To the scene of a cruel medical experiment on a living body, Unit 731."
#Gyeongseong Creature
‘Gyeongseong Creature’ is a story about the protagonists Park Seo-joon and Han So-hee confronting a monster born by Japanese biological experiments.
The main background of Gyeongseong Creature is Gyeongseong 'Ongseong Hospital.' This is a hospital run by the Japanese military, where cruel biometric experiments are conducted on Koreans. This scene reminds us of the biometric experiments actually conducted by Unit 731 during Japanese colonial era.
▲ (Drama still cut) The Japanese military is wary of a monster made from biometric experiments
#So what is ‘Unit 731’?
▲ (Gyeongseong Creature Trailer) Ongseong Hospital in a drama reminiscent of ‘Unit 731’
‘Unit 731’ was a unit that fought in Japan's biochemical war during World War II. Unit 731 is located in Harbin, China, and conducted biological experiments to develop powerful biological and chemical weapons there. The majority of the subjects were Chinese, and Koreans who fought for independence in Manchuria and prisoner of the Soviet Union were also forcibly dragged and tested. The subject of the biological experiment was called 'maruta', which means a peeled log. The experiment was conducted brutally while treating people as logs that could not feel pain. At least 3,000 people died in Unit 731.
#What atrocities did they commit?
▲ (Screen capture of Gyeongseong Creature) The Japanese military is conducting
experiments on living people.
There was no "maruta" that went back alive. At the end of the people who were taken to "maruta," there was only death. They were subjected to sadistic experiments all day.
Many human trials were conducted in Unit 731.
The 731 units injected horse blood and salt water instead of human blood in order to study the substances to replace blood. They also experimented by sending people out at minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius to make statues and then thawing them. They also dissected people alive to examine their organs' functions. They tested 'people' to see under what conditions a person dies and survives.
Hideo Sumizu, who served in the 731st Unit when he was 14 years old, said he remembered a sample room with a marutta that was dissected alive. There were specimens of a woman and a child in her stomach.
In addition, Unit 731 split people's bodies and placed fleas to observe the infection process. Unit 731 also made people drink water containing germs, and dissected those who died.
The 731 unit planted plague bacteria in fleas and sprayed them on Manchurian civilians to experiment and attack using bacteria.
#How did these facts come to light?
The atrocities of Unit 731 were widely publicized by Keiichi Tsuneishi, an assistant professor at the National University of Nagasaki in Japan. He published a research paper in 1981. The report detailed the process of human experiments. The following is part of the report.
“Unit 731, which specializes in bacterial warfare, conducted human tests and poisoned many Koreans and Chinese to use epidemic hemorrhagic fever for bacterial warfare.”
"In healthy humans, a saline emulsion made by grinding ticks containing pathogens is injected to infect epidemic hemorrhagic fever. If a person is alive within 5 days of the outbreak, remove the person's intestines. (Omitted) In order to examine whether pathogens remain, people are eventually dissected alive. (Omitted) Just before the defeat, all of these subjects were poisoned or killed with pistols to destroy evidence."
▲ (Photo released by China's Jilin Provincial Archives)
Japanese health department employees conduct plague quarantine activities on children in Nungan County, Jilin Province, in November 1940.
#A later story
It took more than 40 years for the atrocities of Unit 731 to be known to the world.
The Japanese government destroyed the facilities of Unit 731 and erased or incinerated related documents after the defeat
The 731 unit who participated in the brutal experiment held key positions such as doctors, the chairman of the Green Cross, the head of the Tokyo University Medical Department, and the principal of the Army Self-Defense Force's School of Sanitation They has been on a roll with medical knowledge acquired through biological experiments. There was no proper reflection and apology.
The creature of Gyeongseong Creature may be fiction, but the atrocities in the drama are real.
t would be even more meaningful to watch the drama, bearing in mind that the cruel acts committed in Gyeongseong Creatures could have actually happened.
▲ (Drama still cut) Jang Tae-sang (Park Seo-joon), who is being tortured by the Japanese military