South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that it will hold a memorial service for the Sado Gold Mine in Japan on the 21st... but there will be no joint event this year either.

The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 13th that it plans to hold a memorial service for the Sado Gold Mine. The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, "The government will hold a memorial service for the Sado Gold Mine in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture on the morning of the 21st.
"We will hold a memorial service for the Korean victims of forced mobilization at the Sado Gold Mine."
He continued, "The memorial service, which will be held by Ambassador Lee Hyuk as the government representative, will include the
The plan is for families and government officials to attend the memorial service, and afterward, to visit key sites related to Korean workers and commemorate the sacrifices of Korean forced labor victims at the Sado Gold Mine.
Meanwhile, the Japanese government also held its own memorial service for the Sado Gold Mine in September of this year. At the time, the South Korean government decided that the Japanese memorial speech "lacked expression regarding 'forced mobilization,'" and decided to hold another one, just like last year.
The South Korean government decided to hold the memorial service separately from the Japanese government.