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Survivor of abusive facility searches for lost Korean roots

This undated photo provided by Joo-Rei Mathieson shows herself when she was in childhood taken in South Korea. A Brothers Home intake document describes Mathieson as a lost street kid brought in by police. It notes, chillingly for a government-sponsored vagrants’ facility that survivors have told The Associated Press often worked children to death, that she's “capable of labor.” She spoke no words for days, the document says, after entering Brothers, a now-destroyed facility in the southern port city of Busan where thousands of children and adults, most of whom were grabbed off the streets, were enslaved and often killed, raped and beaten in the 1970s and 1980s. (Courtesy of Joo-Rei Mathieson via AP) This undated photo provided by Joo-Rei Mathieson shows herself when she was in childhood taken in South Korea. A Brothers Home intake document describes Mathieson as a lost street kid brought in by police. It notes, chillingly for a government-sponsored vagrants’ facility that survivors have told The Associated Press often worked children to death, that she's “capable of labor.” She spoke no words for days, the document says, after entering Brothers, a now-destroyed facility in the southern port city of Busan where thousands of children and adults, most of whom were grabbed off the streets, were enslaved and often killed, raped and beaten in the 1970s and 1980s. (Courtesy of Joo-Rei Mathieson via AP) In this frame grab from video, Joo-Rei Mathieson speaks during an interview on May 31, 2022. Mathieson was one of the lucky kids, escaping a brutal South Korean facility where thousands of children and adults, mostly grabbed off the streets, were enslaved and often killed, raped and beaten in the 1970s and 1980s. (AP Photo) In this frame grab from video, Joo-Rei Mathieson speaks during an interview on May 31, 2022. Mathieson was one of the lucky kids, escaping a brutal South Korean facility where thousands of children and adults, mostly grabbed off the streets, were enslaved and often killed, raped and beaten in the 1970s and 1980s. (AP Photo) This undated photo provided by Joo-Rei Mathieson shows herself when she was in childhood taken in South Korea. A Brothers Home intake document describes Mathieson as a lost street kid brought in by police. It notes, chillingly for a government-sponsored vagrants' facility that survivors have told The Associated Press often worked children to death, that she's "capable of labor." She spoke no words for days, the document says, after entering Brothers, a now-destroyed facility in the southern port city of Busan where thousands of children and adults, most of whom were grabbed off the streets, were enslaved and often killed, raped and beaten in the 1970s and 1980s. (Courtesy of Joo-Rei Mathieson via AP) FILE - This undated file photo shows the Brothers Home compound in Busan, South Korea. Brothers was a now-destroyed facility in the southern port city of Busan where thousands of children and adults, most of whom were grabbed off the streets, were enslaved and often killed, raped and beaten in the 1970s and 1980s. (Yonhap via AP, File) This undated photo provided by Joo-Rei Mathieson shows herself when she was in childhood taken in South Korea. A Brothers Home intake document describes Mathieson as a lost street kid brought in by police. It notes, chillingly for a government-sponsored vagrants' facility that survivors have told The Associated Press often worked children to death, that she's "capable of labor." She spoke no words for days, the document says, after entering Brothers, a now-destroyed facility in the southern port city of Busan where thousands of children and adults, most of whom were grabbed off the streets, were enslaved and often killed, raped and beaten in the 1970s and 1980s. (Courtesy of Joo-Rei Mathieson via AP)