In this research, the ‘Sabuk incident’ refers to an incident of state violence perpetrated against hundreds of residents of a small mining village in Gangwon-do who resisted the imposition of martial law in April 1980. The victims of the Sabuk incident can be roughly divided into three categories. The first are those who were tried and had their sentences upheld. The second category is those who were arrested by the police without a warrant and released after being subjected to horrific violence, including beatings and torture, in the name of state power. And the third category refers to the spouses and children of victims who pass on poverty, pain and trauma due to the unjust harm suffered by their parents’ generation. This article presents the results of the first full survey on actual harm conditions conducted by the Jeongseon Community Research Center for one month from August 2022 among the victims of the Sabuk incident. The results of the victims’ responses to the general questions comprehensively show how the patterns of harm raised in relation to the Sabuk incident affect the lives of those who were directly involved in the incident, as well as the lives of their children’s generations.