PHOTOS Unforgotten war
Go Hoo-gyu, 73, hugs the tombstone of his father, Go Wook-lim, killed during the Korean War, at the National Cemetery in Seoul, Monday, a day ahead of the 70th anniversary of the war's outbreak. The fratricidal war ended in a ceasefire, not a peace treaty, on July 27, 1953, leaving the two Koreas still technically at war. YonhapGo makes a deep bow to the tombstone of his father at the National Cemetery in Seoul, Monday, a day ahead of the 70th anniversary of the war's outbreak. YonhapAn unidentified man makes a deep bow, Monday. YonhapA woman at the National Cemetery in Seoul, Monday. YonhapA man walks in front of the Statue of Brothers at the War Memorial of Korea in Yongsan District, Seoul, Monday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chulA sculpture at the War Memorial of Korea in Yongsan District, Seoul, indicates the year and the date of the start of the Korean War. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chulThe names of those who died in the Korean War are engraved in this marble slab at the War Memorial of Korea in Yongsan District, Seoul. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
Jun 24, 2019