SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national war memorial said Friday it will open a photo exhibition next week to pay tribute to Canadian soldiers who fought during the 1950-53 Korean War. The exhibition, titled Kapyong 70: A Tribute to the Canadian Veterans of the Korean War, was co-organized with the Canadian Embassy [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has updated a book on foreign medical help received during the 1950-53 Korean War to add Germany to the list of helping countries and a copy will be delivered to Germany’s ambassador on Thursday, an official said. U.N. “Sending States” had long been defined as 21 countries [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A photo exhibition shedding light on international veterans who fought in the Korean War has opened in Seoul. “Project Soldier kwv,” which opened at Avenuel Art Hall in southern Seoul on March 13, showcases around 80 photography works featuring veteran soldiers who served in the 1950-53 war. Around 1.95 [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to hold a ceremony to break ground for the construction of a memorial wall in Washington later this year to honor U.S. veterans who fought in the 1950-53 Korean War, the veterans affairs ministry here said Tuesday. Seoul has been working on the project to construct [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The veterans affairs ministry published a new edition of its book on the history of the international medical assistance rendered to South Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War to add the long-forgotten contribution of Germany, officials said Sunday. U.N. “Sending States” had long been defined as 21 countries — [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea provided an additional 2 million face masks to international veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War recently in an expression of gratitude for their sacrifice, the veterans affairs ministry has said. Under the second such project, a total of 1 million masks were sent to the veterans in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has identified the remains of two soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War through DNA analysis after they were recovered from former battle sites near the inter-Korean border, the defense ministry said Friday. Pfc. Kim Sung-geun was presumed to have been killed during a battle in 1950 [...]
CHEORWON, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Barbed wire fences that witnessed the brutality of the Korean War have been remade into statues of red-crowned cranes, a symbol of peace and longevity. The border county of Cheorwon in Gangwon Province said Tuesday that crane statues made with fences collected from Arrowhead Hill during an excavation project [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government decided Monday to spend 1.95 billion won (US$1.76 million) to transform a guard post on the border with North Korea into a museum underscoring inter-Korean reconciliation efforts and honoring soldiers killed during the Korean War. The guard post at Arrowhead Ridge inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea put up a thank-you video in New York’s Times Square on Monday (Seoul time) in honor of foreign service members who fought alongside the South during the 1950-53 Korean War as the country marks the 70th anniversary of the war’s outbreak, the veterans affairs ministry said. The [...]