Yeongcheon National Cemetery and Memorial
Back in the U.S., the Korean War is often referred to as the “Forgotten War.” It might be said then in S. Korea that it’s a war the people would like to forget, but can’t. Looking around at all the high rise buildings, cell phone shops and internet cafes, it is difficult to imagine that just a few generations ago this country was torn apart by a devastating civil war that cost millions of lives and left most of the peninsula in smoldering ruins. Yet the horrendous suffering of the war, along with the rending in half of a nation and people, are buried deep in the Korean national psyche.
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