SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2,200 South Koreans died in the first eight months of this year without having a chance to reunite with their family members in North Korea after being separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, government data showed Thursday. A total of 2,226 people passed away in the January-August [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States kicked off their first joint underwater excavation project earlier this month to recover the remains of American soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, the defense ministry said Friday. Some 10 South Korean military personnel, and 20 from the U.S. Forces Korea and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The late wife of an Australian veteran killed during the 1950-53 Korean War will be laid to rest in a southeastern city this week alongside her husband, Seoul’s veterans ministry said Wednesday. A burial ceremony for Olwyn Green, the late widow of Lt. Col. Charles Green, will take place [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Seventy years after the end of the Korean War, three foreign veterans expressed their deep emotional attachment to South Korea on Tuesday, stemming from long-lost local acquaintances, battlefield memories and their pride in the “once-flat” country’s rise from the ashes of the conflict. The U.S., British and Canadian veterans [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s veterans ministry has chosen a late legendary U.S. baseball player as next month’s Korean War hero for his combat role during the 1950-53 conflict, officials said Friday. Capt. Ted Williams, known for his stellar Major League Baseball career, primarily for the Boston Red Sox, was sent to [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A ceremony to award the Ambassador for Peace Medal took place on Wednesday (local time) at City Hall in San Francisco. The medal is given by the Ministry of Patriots and Veteran Affairs as a token of appreciation from the Korean government and people to Korean War heroes. Yoon [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Veterans Minister Park Min-shik has delivered to the family of a decorated U.S. solider, killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, soil from the site where his remains were excavated, the minister’s office said Thursday. The event honoring late Cpl. Luther H. Story took place at the Wall [...]
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday awarded South Korea’s highest military order to three American veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War. Retired Army Col. Ralph Puckett, retired Navy Capt. Elmer Royce Williams and the late Baldomero Lopez, a first lieutenant who served in the Marine Corps, were awarded the Taegeuk [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A video honoring notable U.S. and South Korean veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War started airing in New York’s Times Square on Thursday, the veterans ministry said, as the two countries celebrate the 70th anniversary of their alliance. The 30-second video will be shown periodically on two electronic billboards [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will name a bike path at a former battle site after Turkey this week, under a program to commemorate the participation of the country and 21 others in the 1950-53 Korean War, the veterans ministry said Thursday. The ministry has arranged the program to remember the sacrifices [...]