Monday
January 20, 2020
Gangnam-gu, South Korea
Fine Dust :
When Haile Selassie sent over 3,500 soldiers to fight for Korea seven decades ago, the Ethiopian emperor did not mince words. The first squad of infantrymen dispatched from the African nation in April 1951 was christened “Kagnew,” meaning “the...
As the sole survivor among the Italian medical volunteers who sailed to Korea following the war’s 1950 outbreak, Gianni Riboldi still carries painful memories of his time here. “Between Seoul and the hospital I saw despair, misery and refugees who...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said his country’s nuclear arsenal provided a “reliable and effective” deterrence that would permanently prevent a second war on the Korean Peninsula, state media reported Tuesday.
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Monday vowed the government would uphold security and peace on the Korean Peninsula in line with the sacrifices made by veterans of the Korean War, during a ceremony marking UN Forces Participation Day.
U.S. President Donald Trump stressed that Washington’s “ironclad alliance” with Seoul is vital to peace and stability in Asia and around the world in a proclamation marking the armistice agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
For 60 years, Kim Eun-ja told no one about her Turkish father and the name he had given her. “No one else had called me Ayla,” she said during an interview at her home in Incheon on Thursday. “So you can imagine my shock when a government official...
Claude Charland, a 23-year-old lieutenant and commander of his platoon north of the Imjin River in Gyeonggi, was making breakfast one June morning of 1952 when they were paid a surprise visit. “A group of Koreans from the same family, three...
Paik Sun-yup, the country’s first four-star general recognized as a 1950-53 Korean War hero, was buried at the Daejeon National Cemetery Wednesday amid controversy over his lingering label as a collaborator with Japanese colonizers.
Chang Chun-ha (1918-1975) escaped the Japanese Imperial Army in order to serve the Korean Liberation Army in China, but he was utterly disappointed by the endless strife and division among independence movement fighters at their...
The country is split once again. Last year, public sentiment was divided over the controversy surrounding President Moon Jae-in’s appointment of Cho Kuk as the justice minister despite his corruption allegations. This time, the...
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