The Korea Times
Until my middle and high school years, I used to draw posters with slogans like “Never Forget June 25th” and even participated in anti-communist speech contests. My parents, who lived through the Korean War, would occasionally share stories of their evacuation to Busan and Jeju Island. My father lost his parents at a young age and lived under communist rule for three months when the war broke out. He recalls how they were deprived of sleep for ideological indoctrination and how there was no such thing as freedom. He also often mentioned the tragic stories of young students in the family who were called to an emergency assembly at school, only to be mobilized into the army and taken to the North, their fates remaining unknown for decades. As of 2026, Korea remains in a state of truce. Since a peace treaty has never been signed, the war has not officially ended; it is merely on pause — an extremely uncertain and unstable situation. Perhaps because of this, one can easily find highly bellicose and combative behaviors within our society that mirror the nature of war. The 1950-53 Korea
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