SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of international soldiers who fought in the 1950-53 Korean War under the U.N. flag will visit South Korea this week as part of a program to express appreciation for their service, Seoul’s veterans ministry said Monday. A total of 107 war veterans and their family members from [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A new school curriculum on the Korean War has been published for elementary, middle, and high schools in the United States. The Korean War Legacy Foundation, a non-profit organization in the U.S., announced the release of the new compilation of the Korean War jointly with the National Council for [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of U.S. soldiers who fought in the 1950-53 Korean War and their families will visit South Korea next week as part of a program expressing gratitude for their service, Seoul’s veterans ministry said Friday. Sixty-two U.S. war veterans and their families, along with 20 Korean veterans and [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Forensic experts from South Korea and the United States began joint identification work on Tuesday for remains believed to be from soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, the defense ministry said Tuesday. The two sides plan to work together for the next four days to analyze remains that [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The remains of a Dutch veteran of the Korean War will arrive in South Korea next week for burial at a United Nations cemetery in Busan, a southern port city, the government here said Friday. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said that the remains of the late [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The American Legion (AL), a U.S. veterans association, delivered its intention to help build a memorial wall at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Kim Jin-ho, President of the Korean Veterans Association, met with the AL delegation led by Brett Reistad in Seoul to discuss the way [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military said Thursday it has identified the remains of an American service member killed in the 1950-53 Korean War via joint work with the ally. The remains were excavated in Yanggu, Gangwon Province, in October last year by the Ministry of National Defense Agency for KIA Recovery [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea found two sets of Korean War remains for the first time during its demining work in a notorious battle site inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) this week, Seoul’s defense ministry said Thursday. On Wednesday, the ministry’s Agency for KIA Recovery and Identification retrieved the remains from Arrowhead [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Embassy in Sweden revealed yesterday that it had held an event on September 24 at a conference center in Stockholm during which Lee Jeong-kyu, the ambassador of Korea to Sweden, expressed gratitude to Sweden for its participation in the Korean War. The event was held in time [...]
MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of South and North Koreans torn apart by the 1950-53 Korean War met for the first time in over six decades in a tearful, long-dreamed-of family reunion on Monday. Eighty-nine South Koreans, mostly in their 70s and older, met about 180 long-separated family members, including [...]