







25์ผ ์ค์๋ ๋ด์์ฃผ ์๋น์ ๊ฑฐ
ํ์์์ ์ ๊ฑฐ์์ ํ์ธ ํ๋ณด๋ค์ด
๋ชจ๋ ์น๋ฆฌํ์ฌ 11์ ๋ณธ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ง
์ถํ์ ํ์ธ๋ค์โ์ด์ 11์ ๋ณธ์
๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํฅํด ๋ค์ ๋ฐ์ด ํ์ธ ๋ด์์ฃผ
ํ์์์์ 3๋ช ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์โ๊ณ ๋ค
์งํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
25์ผ ์ค์๋ ๋ด์์ฃผ ์๋น์ ๊ฑฐ
40์ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋น ๋ด์์ฃผ ํ์์์
์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ถ๋งํ ๋ก ๊น ํ๋ณด์, 25์ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ ๊ณตํ๋น ์๋น์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ถ๋งํ
์ผ๋ค์ค ๋ฐฑ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์น๋ฆฌํ์ฌ 11์ 5์ผ(ํ) ์ค์ํ๋ ๋ณธ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋น ํ๋ณด์ ๊ณตํ๋น ํ๋ณด ๋ก ์ถ๋งํ๊ฒ ๋๋ค. 40์ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ ๋ก ๊น ํ๋ณด๋ 25์ผ ์ค ํ 11์ ํ์ฌ ์ด ์ ํจํฌํ 3,052ํ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋์ 1,621ํ๋ฅผ ์ป
์ด ๋ํ์จ 54.2%๋ก, ์ค๊ตญ๊ณ ์ด ์ค
๋ ์ฒธ ํ๋ณด(1,194ํ ๋ํ์จ 39.9%)
์ ๋ค์ค ์ธ ํ๋ณด(176ํ, 5.9%)๋ฅผ ํฐ ํ์ฐจ๋ก ๋๋ฅด๊ณ ๋ณธ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ง์ถ ํ๋ค.
25์ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ ๊ณตํ๋น ์๋น์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ถ๋งํ ์ผ๋ค์ค ๋ฐฑ ํ๋ณด๋ ์ด ์ ํจ ํฌํ 992ํ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ 686ํ, ๋ํ์จ 69.15%๋ก, 297ํ ๋ํ์จ 29.94%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ ์ค๊ตญ๊ณ ์ผ๋ค์ค ์ถ ํ๋ณด์ ๊ฒ ํฌ๊ฒ ์ด๊ธฐ๊ณ ๋ณธ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ง์ถ, ํ ๋ด์์ฃผํ์์์์ธ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋น ๋๋ฆฌ ๋ก ์ง ํ๋ณด์ ๊ฒจ๋ฃจ๊ฒ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๋ด์์ฃผํ์์๋ ํ์ธ ์ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ด์์ 40์ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ์ ๋ก ๊น
์์๊ณผ 3์ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค ์ด ์ ์์ด ์๋๋ฐ 11์ ๋ณธ์ ๊ฑฐ์์ ์ด ๋ค 2๋ช ์ ํ์ญ์์์ ๋ฌผ๋ก 25์ ๊ฑฐ ๊ตฌ ๊ณตํ๋น ์๋น์ ๊ฑฐ์์ ์์นํ ์ผ๋ค์ค ๋ฐฑ ํ๋ณด๊น์ง 3๋ช ์ ํ์ธ๋ค ์ด ์ถ๋งํ๋ค. ์ด์, ํ์ธ๋ค์โ์๋น์ ๊ฑฐ์ ํ์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ 11์๊น์ง ์ด์ด๊ฐ ํ




๊ฒฝ
ํฉ์ฃผ์ธ ์กฐ์ง์์ฃผ์ ์ ํ๋ํ์์
CNN ์ฃผ์ต๋ก ์งํ๋๋ค.
์กฐ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ๋ํต๋ น(๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋น ๋์
ํ๋ณด)๊ณผ ๋๋๋ ํธ๋ผํ ์ ๋ํต๋ น (๊ณตํ๋น ๋์ ํ๋ณด)์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ผ๋น
ํ๋ณด์ ํ์ง ๋ํต๋ น์ผ๋ก์ ๋ง์ฐ
๋ 4๋ ์ ๊ณผ ๊ณต์ ์ ์ฅ์ด ๋ฐ๋ ์
ํฉ์์ 90๋ถ๊ฐ ํ์น์ ์๋ณด๋ ์
๋โ์ธ๋๋ฌด ๋ค๋ฆฌ ๋๊ฒฐโ์ ์น๋ฅธ๋ค.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ํต๋ น ํ๋ณด๊ฐ์ ํ ๋ก ์ด
TV๋ก ์ฒ์ ์ค๊ณ๋ 1956๋ ์ดํ


์ ยทํ์ง ๋ํต๋ น์ด ๋์ ํ๋ณด๋ก์ TVํ ๋ก ์์ ๋ง๋๊ฒฐ์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ ์ด๋ฒ์ด ์ฒ์์ด๋ค. ๋ ์๋น ๋ ์ ํ๋ณด ๊ณต์ ์ง๋ช ์ด ์ด๋ค์ง๋ 7 ์ ๊ณตํ๋น ์ ๋น๋ํ์ 8์ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋น ์ ๋น๋ํ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ ์ธ 6์์


TVํ ๋ก ์ด ์กฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์ด ๋ก์ ์ด๋ค. ์ ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋ก ์กฐ์ฌ์์ ๋ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ์ค์ฐจ๋ฒ์ ๋ด์์ ์์น๋ฝ ๋ค์น๋ฝ ํ๊ณ , ๊ฒฝํฉ์ฃผ ์กฐ์ฌ์์ ํธ๋ผํ ์ ๋ํต๋ น์ด ๋ค์ ์ฐ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์ ์ผ๋ ์ด๋ฒ ๋์ ๋ ์ด์ค๋ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ์ฝ๊ฒ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์ด
๋ฐฉํฅ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฅด๊ณ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฅ์ธ์์ ์น์ดํ ์ํธ ๋น๋ฐฉ์ ์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ฉฐโ๋ถ๊ตฌ๋์ฒ์ ๋ฐ ๋ชฉโ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์จ ๋ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ ์ ์์ ์ฒ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ง์ฃผํ๊ณ ์ ์ฑ ๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฒฝํฉํ๋ ์ด๋ฒ ํ ๋ก
์ ๋ถ๋์ธต์ ํ์ฌ์ ์๋นํ ์ํฅ ์ ์ค ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ค์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ ๋ค.
์ฐ์ ์ ์ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ถ๋ฒ ์ด๋ฏผ ์ ๋ฌธ์ , ๊ณ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ, ๋ํ, ์ฐํฌ๋ผ์ด ๋ ์ ์๊ณผ ์ด์ค๋ผ์-ํ๋ง์ค ์ ์
(๊ฐ์ ์ ์) ๋ฑ์ด ์ค์ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ค ์ง ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋๋ค. ๋์ ์์ธ ํธ๋ผํ ์ ๋ํต๋ น์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ํ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋จ๋ถ ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ ํต ํด ์ ์ ๋๋ ๋ถ๋ฒ ์ด๋ฏผ์ ํต์ ์ ์คํจํ๋ฉด์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์น์์ ์ํ ์์๋ฅผ ์๊ฒ ๋๋ค๋ ์ฃผ์ฅ์ ํด๊ณ , ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ฌํ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์๋ฏผ ์ ๊ณ ์ ํ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ๋ค ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋๋ค. ๋ ์์ ์ ๋ฐฑ์ ๊ด ์ฌ์ ์ฑ์ ์ฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋ ์ ์๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์์ด ์กฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋๋๋๋ก ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์ฃผ์ฅํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ด์ธก๋ ๋ค. ์์ ์ ์ฌ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ(2017 2021 ๋ ) ์ธ๊ณ๊ฐ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ํํ๋ก์ ๋ค๋ ์ฃผ์ฅ์ ํด๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ํ์ ๋ถ
์ ๋์ธ์ ์ฑ ์ ๋นํํ๋ ํํธ, ํธ ๋ผํ์ ํ์ ํตํ ํํโ๋ฅผ ์ญ์ค ํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ค์ ์ ๋งํ๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ๋ํต๋ น์ ์ ์ฑ ๊ด๋ จ ๋ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ด์๋ ์ฌ์ฑ ํ์ฌ ์ ํฐ ์ํฅ์ ์ฃผ๋โ๋ํ๋ฌธ์ โ๋ค. ํธ๋ผํ ์ ๋ํต๋ น์






๋ฏผ๊ถ์ผํฐ์ ํจ๊ป ์ผํ๋ ํ์ธ ์ ๊ตญ ๊ถ์ต๋จ์ฒดโ๋ฏธ์ฃผํ์ธ๋ด์ฌ๊ต
์ก๋จ์ฒดํ์ํ(NAKASEC)โ๋
25์ผ(ํ) ์ ๊ตญ ์จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ชจ์์ ์ด ๊ณ ์ต๊ทผ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ํ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ฐํํ
์ ๊ตญ์ด๋ฏผ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ผํฐ ๋ณํธ์ฌ๊ฐ ์์์ง๋ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ต ํ๋ค. ๋ณํธ์ฌ๋ค์โโ๋ถ๋ฒ ์ ๊ตญโ์ ํด
์ ์๋ฏผ๊ถ์์ ํผ์ธ์ ํด๋ ํฉ๋ฒ
์ ๋ถ ์ทจ๋์ด ์ด๋ ค์ด ์๋ฅ๋ฏธ๋น ๋ฐฐ
์ฐ์ 50๋ง์ฌ ๋ช ์ด ์ถ๋ฐฉ์ด๋ ์ฌ์
๊ตญ ๊ธ์ง ์กฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ง ์๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด
์์ ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ ์ ์ฒญํ ์ ์๋ค. ์ด
๋ค ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์์ 21์ด ๋ฏธ๋ง ์๋ 5๋ง์ฌ
๋ช ๋ ํํ์ ๋ฐ๋๋ค. ๋จ, 2024๋ 6
์ 17์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ 10๋ ์ด์
๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ์ด์ผ ํ๋คโ๊ณ ์ค๋ช ํ๋ค.
๋ ์๋ฅ๋ฏธ๋น ์ฒญ๋ ์ถ๋ฐฉ์ ์ (DACA) ์ ๋ถ์ด๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฏธ ๋ํ์
์กธ์ ํ ์๋ฅ๋ฏธ๋น์ ๋ฑ ์ด๋ฆด ๋ ๋ถ
๋ชจ์ ํจ๊ป ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์์ ์๋ฅ๋ฏธ๋น
์๊ฐ ๋โ๋๋ฆฌ๋จธโ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ทจ์ ๋น์
๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ๋ค. ์ด๋ค์ด ์ทจ์ ๋น์๋ฅผ
๋ฐ์ผ๋ ค๋ฉด ์ถ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋์์
์ผ ํ๋๋ฐ ์๋ฅ๋ฏธ๋น์์๊ฒ ์ ์ฉ
๋๋ 3~10๋ ์ ๊ตญ ๊ธ์ง ๋๋ฌธ์ ์
์ฒญ์ด ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ด์ฃผ๋
์กฐ์น์ด๋ค.
DACA ์ ๋ถ์ ํ์ฌ 57๋ง์ฌ
๋ช , ํ์ธ์ 6000์ฌ ๋ช ์ด๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง
DACA ์๊ฒฉ์ ๊ฐ์ถ ํ์ธ์ 4๋ง
์ฌ ๋ช , ์ ์ฒด๋ 170๋ง์ฌ ๋ช ์ ์ด๋ฅด ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ด ์กฐ์น๊ฐ ๋ฏธ์น ์ํฅ์
ํฌ๋ค.
์ด๋ ํ์ ๋ช ๋ น๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด ์์
์ง ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์ ๊ตญ์ด๋ฏผ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ผํฐ๋
์ฐ์ ์์ง ์ธ๋ถ์กฐํญ์ด ๋ฐํ๋์ง
์์ ์ ํํ ๋ต๋ณ์ ํ๊ธฐ ํ๋ค๋ค
๋ ์ ์ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ํ๋ค. ๋ฏผ๊ถ์ผํฐ๋
โํ์ ๋ช ๋ น์ด 8์์ฏค ์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ
๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ , ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ ์๊ฒฌ ์๋ ด ๊ณผ
์ ์ ๊ฑฐ์น๋ ๋์ ์ํ ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ๋

ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ ๊ทน ๋์ํด์ผ ํ๋คโ๊ณ
๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ค๋ ์ด๋ฏผ๋ฒ ๊ดํ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด
๋ฉด ์ ๊ท์ ์ ์ ์ฉ์ ๋ฐ๋ ์ด๋ฏผ์
๋ค์ โ ์ฌ๊ถ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ๊ธ
์ ๋ฐ๊ณ โก์ฌ๊ถ์ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์๋ ๊ฒฝ
์ฐ ์ถ์์ฆ๋ช ์ ๋ฑ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ๋ถ ์๋ฅ
๋ฅผ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ โข์๋ฅ๋ฏธ๋น ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์
๋ค์ ์๊ธ ๋ช ์ธ์, ์ฌํ ์ฆ๋ช ์ ๋ฑ
10๋ ์ด์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ๊ณ์ ์ด์๋ค
๋ ์ฆ๋น์ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ โฃ๋๋ฆฌ๋จธ๋ค
์ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ทจ์ ๋น์ ์คํฐ์๊ฐ ํ ์ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ณ ์ฉ์ฃผ์ ํ๋ ฅ์
์์ฒญํด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์ค๋ช ํ๋ค. ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๋์ ์ง๋ฌธ์
โ๋๋ฆฌ๋จธโ๋ค์ด ํฉ๋ฒ ์ทจ์ ๋น์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ
์ ๋ค ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ ์ ์ฒญํ ์ ์๋์ง ์ ๋ํ ๊ฒ์ด์๋๋ฐ ๋๋ต์ ๋ถ์
์ ์ด์๋ค. ์์ฃผ๊ถ ์ทจ๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ
๋ ค๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฐฉ์ํ์์ ๋ฒ์ ์ ์ ํด
์ผ ํ๋ค๋ฉฐ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ด๋ฏผ์ ์ปค๋ฎค
๋ํฐ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ๊ฒ ์ธ์์ ์ป์ด ์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์ง์ ํ๋ค. NAKASEC์ ์ด๋ฒ ์กฐ์น๊ฐ




1100๋ง
๊ตฌํ๋ ์ด๋ฏผ์ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋
์๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ชป ๋ฏธ์น์ง๋ง ์ค๋ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ
์ค๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ฒ ์ธ์์จ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ก ์ป์โ์
์ ์น๋ฆฌโ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฐํ๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก ์
ํ์ธ์น ์๊ฒฌ ์๋ ด ๊ณผ์ ์์ ์ํ
๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ๋ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ , ๋
๋์๊ฐ ์ด๋ฒ ์กฐ์น์์ ์ ์ธ๋ ๋ ๋ค์ ์๋ฅ๋ฏธ๋น์๋ค์ ์๋ ์ ์ ํ ํ๋์ ๋ฉ์ถ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ์ฝ์ ํ๋ค. ๋ฏผ๊ถ์ผํฐ์ NAKASEC์ด ์ ๋ฅ๋ฏธ๋น์ ๊ถ์ต ์ด๋์ ํผ์น ์ง๋


ํธ์ฆ ํ์์คํค์ ์์นํ ๋ด์ ํ๋ชจ๋๊ตํ ์ค์ํ ๋ชฉ์ฌ๋ 25์ผ 21ํฌ๋ง์ฌ๋จ(์ด์ฌ์ฅ ๋ณ์ข ๋)์ ๋ฐฉ ๋ฌธํ์ฌ ์ด๋ ค์ด ์ด์์ ๋๋๋ฐ ์จ ๋ฌ๋ผ๋ฉด 1,000 ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฌํ๋ค. ๋ด ์ํ๋ชจ๋๊ตํ๋ 21ํฌ๋ง์ฌ๋จ์ ๋งค ๋ 1000๋ฌ๋ฌ์ฉ ํ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ผ
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SeanYoo[GranadaHillsCharterHighSchool, CA]
โFreedom is not freeโ. These exact words were engraved into the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. I visited this exact memorial when I lived in Baltimore around 7 years ago. I went with my family and was able to talk to a few veterans who were looking back to the time when they were serving. They told me of all the horrible and inhumane things they saw in their period of military service ranging from children dying of famine to women getting kidnapped. This was the harsh reality of the Korean War. It wasnโt just the soldiers that suffered losses but everyone. So what was this war for? Was the war worth it?
After World War II, the nation of Korea was split along the 38th parallel to see the removal of the Japanese imperialist. The North came under the influence of the soviet union and the South under the influence of the US. This led to the creation of two polar opposite governments. Communism and Democracy. The North became the Democratic Peopleโs Republic of Korea led by Kim Il Sung. The South became the Republic of Korea led by Rhee Syngman. Both wanted to reunite the

Korean peninsula according to their respective government ideals. This led to tensions rising between the two nations for 5 years.
On June 25, 1950, the Korean Peopleโs Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated attack along the 38th Parralele. This initial attack drove the South Korean army and civilians down to an area called Busan, the furthest port city of the Korean Peninsula. The war seemed to be a devastating defeat for the Republic of Korea.
However, on September 15, 1950, the newly established United Nations Command or the UNC spearheaded by General Douglas MacArthur set out on Operation Chromite, the
Incheon Landing. One of the greatest-known operations that led to the recapturing of Seoul. This new momentum pushed the UNC up the northern territory. Soon, the Chinese armies entered the war in support of the DPRK and brutal fighting continued until the spring of 1951, when the fighting stalemated along the present demilitarized zone.
Truce talks began and on July 27, 1953, the Democratic Peopleโs Republic of Korea, United Nations Command, and the Peopleโs Republic of China signed the armistices that put the war to a halt. The Republic Of Korea refused to sign the armistices because they didnโ t recognize the divided Korea. This armistice is still in effect today.
This war lasted for three years, a month, and two days. In that short period of time, three million people lost their lives, and tens of thousands suffered casualties. Half of these deaths were civilians. Both nations suffered physical destruction from the heavy bombing and the tremendous death toll scarred both nations.
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โฆ Thearmisticeisstillineffecttodayandthewarisstillnotover. Thesufferingofmanyinnocentciviliansisstillgoingonrightnow. The causationofthiswar, theeventsofthiswar, andtheendingofthiswararesimilartotheeventshappeningaroundtheworldtoday. Israel Gaza, UkraineRussia. Bothconflictsconsistoftwocountrieswithsimilarrootsandcultures. Bothconflictsconsistofthefightforfreedom. Butmostimportantly, bothconflictsconsistofthedevastationoffamiliesandthecasualtiesanddeathsofmillionsofpeople. Arethesewars worththedeathsofmillionsofpeople? Arenโtthesewarspreventable? ArenโtthesewarsarepeatoftheKoreanWar? Ihavelearnedfrom thisjourneyofstudyingabouttheKoreanWarthatfreedomisnotfree. โฆ โ
In the 74 years that passed, there have been many economic and social repercussions among the regions in both South and North Korea.

Economically, there was a huge disparity between the North and South. North Korea developed a Juche idealogy that was the belief in selfreliance in all aspects including military, economics, and politics. This led to total isolation and caused many famines leading to the death of millions of North Koreans.
In the South, they took the total opposite approach. South Korea opened up its markets to an export-based economy. They went on to become the top 10 exporters globally and the 11th largest economy in the world. South Korea came back stronger than ever before and developed many technologies that exist all over the world. LG, Samsung, Kia, and Hyundai. Our culture took over the world. Korean food like KBBQ, Korean Music like BTS and Blackpink, Korean cosmetics like skincare, and Korean drama and movies like Parasite and Squid Game. These globally popular products created billions of dollars in revenue for South Korea.
Socially, there has been a divide between South and North Korea due to decades of isolation and propaganda. Many families have split apart and many children were left parentless.
So let me ask you again, what was the point of this war? Was it truly worth the loss of 3 million people and the permanent scars among civilians? Was it worth all the families being split up eternally? Was it worth causing hundreds of thousands of children to be orphaned?
No, it was not. The war didnโ t change one aspect of the Korean Peninsula. Sure, it led to the prevention of the spread of communism and protected the democracy and liberty of South Korea. But, it just created worse
division, total isolation, and the deaths and casualties of millions of innocent civilians. It caused the splitting of many families and the creation of hundreds of thousands of children orphans.
My fatherโs father was one of these orphans created by the Korean War. His Father went missing in the middle of the war and it caused him to look after his mother and siblings. He had to look every day for somthing to eat and lacked a proper education. This was the harsh reality of these orphans. The effect continued into his adult stages as he faced economic hardships and emotional deprivations.
Also, My motherโ s grandfather was one of these divided families. He had a family up in the north. His wife and kids. One day, he came down to the south to obtain some food for his family. This was when the Armistice was signed into play and the whole border was shut down. Without even being able to say a proper goodbye, my great-grandfather was stuck in the South for the rest of his life. Ultimately, he was able to find and establish a new family and life, but he still lived the rest of his life missing his wife and kids.
It has been 74 years since the creation of these divided families. In the 74 years, many of those generations passed away. It seems that the sentiments towards reunification are also gradually fading with the passage of time.
The armistice is still in effect today and the war is still not over. The suffering of many innocent civilians is still going on right now. The causation of this war, the events of this war, and the ending of this war are similar to the events happening around the world today. Israel Gaza, Ukraine Russia. Both conflicts consist of two countries
with similar roots and cultures. Both conflicts consist of the fight for freedom. But most importantly, both conflicts consist of the devastation of families and the casualties and deaths of millions of people. Are these wars worth the deaths of millions of people?
Arenโ t these wars preventable? Arenโ t these wars a repeat of the Korean War?
I have learned from this journey of studying about the Korean War that freedom is not free. The freedom that we take for granted here in the United States isnโ t prevalent in areas all over the world. Especially for the Korean peninsula. The war to prevent communism and the defense of liberty, democracy, and freedom led to the suffering of millions of people.
I hope that even as time goes on, the memories and sacrifices made during the Korean War are not forgotten. I hope that we will someday see a form of unification on the Korean Peninsula. I hope that there comes a time when reconciliation settles on the Korean peninsula. As I reflect back on the sacrifices of the Korean War, I hope that it isnโt just the remembrance of the courage and resilience of those who came before us that is remembered but also the reaffirmation of our commitment to building a world of freedom, peace, and justice. I hope that the legacy of the Korean War inspires us to strive for a brighter future. A sense of unity within our shared humanity and determination to overcome the challenges ahead. I hope that we all realize that the freedom we have today and the freedom that people fight for is not something that is to be taken lightly. Freedom is not free. It is the result of sacrifice and pain.



























































































































































