Korean American entrepreneur seeks memorial site for UN troops killed in Korean War
For Sunny K. Park, memories of the 1950-53 Korean War remain vivid more than seven decades later. Park, an 84-year-old Korean American entrepreneur who serves as president of the American Korean Friendship Society and the Korean War United Nations Veterans Memorial Foundation, was 8 when the war broke out in 1950. While fleeing from Seoul to Busan during the war, he witnessed scenes that would…
Sunny K. Park, an 84-year-old Korean-American entrepreneur and president of the American Korean Friendship Society and the Korean War United Nations Veterans Memorial Foundation, seeks to establish a memorial site for the United Nations troops who perished during the Korean War (1950-53).
During an interview with The Korea Times, Park recalled witnessing the aftermath of the war when he was just 8 years old. Fleeing Seoul for Busan, he saw the bodies of young foreign soldiers scattered across the landscape, their limbs dismembered by the bombs that had devastated the peninsula.
"The bombs shattered all these people. Body parts were all over … I saw dead bodies at the rice paddy. They were about 17-18 years old," Park recounted.
Although Park, who immigrated to the United States in 1974, had no understanding of the war's cause at the time, he later developed a profound appreciation for the sacrifices made by the international troops under the United Nations Command. These troops, numbering in the tens of thousands, also suffered heavy losses during the conflict.
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