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, 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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold a ceremony this week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Philippines’ participation in the Korean War, the veterans affairs ministry said Thursday. The Southeast Asian country sent around 7,420 ground troops to help defend South Korea during the 1950-53 conflict, with the first batch [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean government’s recent efforts to deliver protective masks to Korean War veterans worldwide helped find ‘forgotten veterans’ in Thailand. The military attache office of the South Korean Embassy in Thailand worked over a month to identify Thai veterans who fought in the Korean War to include them on [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will provide a total of one million face masks to Korean War veterans in 22 countries in an expression of gratitude for their sacrifice, as this year marks the 70th anniversary of the 1950-53 conflict, the veterans affairs ministry said Thursday. Around 1.95 million people from 22 [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Two U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a bill that seeks to grant federal health care to Korean Americans who served in the Vietnam War. The bill, dubbed the Korean American Vietnam Allies Long Overdue for Relief (VALOR) Act, was introduced by Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Gilbert Cisneros, Jr. [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A highly symbolic ceremony was held Monday at the U.N. Memorial Cemetery in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan in honor of foreign soldiers who were killed while fighting on the South Korean side during the 1950-53 Korean War. The “Turn Toward Busan” ceremony brought together around 1,000 [...]
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, 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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a statement released by the city government of Cheonan today, Cheonan Mayor Koo Bon-young and his entourage participating in the 19th Büyükçekmece Culture and Arts Festival being held in the city of Büyükçekmece, Turkey visited the homes of Yaşar Erkanlı and Ahmet Özkanı, both Korean War veterans. [...]