A construction worker at the site of TSMC's future plant in Kaohsiung found a U.S.-made World War II bomb on Monday. The location is said to have been bombed while being used by the imperial Japanese navy.
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00:00An unexploded World War II bomb has been removed from the site of a future TSMC plant in southern Taiwan.
00:08A worker reported the bomb after finding it at the chipmaker's site in Kaohsiung on Monday.
00:13The U.S. used this type of 1,000-pound aerial bomb during World War II and the Korean War.
00:19Taiwan's military says this one was dropped on a Japanese Navy facility
00:23that used to occupy the site and no longer posed a threat to the public.
00:27The U.S. military has removed the bomb from the site.
00:32As far as I know, TSMC used to be the sixth fuel plant in Japan.
00:37It is speculated that the U.S. bombed the bomb during the Japanese occupation.