{"id":560,"date":"2010-06-29T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/?p=560"},"modified":"2017-12-21T07:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T12:31:25","slug":"korean-war-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/korean-war-memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean War Memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Korean War has many names. The South Koreans call it the 6.25 War, which reflects the date the war started (<strong>\uc721\uc774\uc624 \uc804\uc7c1<\/strong>), and the North Koreans call it the Fatherland Liberation War (<strong>\uc870\uad6d \ud574\ubc29 \uc804\uc7c1<\/strong>). The\u00a0number of\u00a0countries that fought in this war was numerous. Fighting on the side of the South Korea was the U.S, the UK, Canada, France, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Turkey, Colombia, Thailand, Philippines, South Africa, Ethiopia and the UN. Fighting on the side of North Korea was China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Many countries have some sort of memorial to those who have fallen in the War. Here are some of the Korean War memorials of various countries, starting with the one in Washington D.C. The statues of soldiers are almost life-like and a touching tribute to those who have died in the War:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Forgotten War - Korean War Memorial, Washington DC - He Ain&#039;t Heavy, The Hollies\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yiru_7fq-WU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This Korean War memorial is in Belfast, Ireland :<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Korean War Memorial Belfast\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dc-hsIkB1e4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2010\/06\/South_Africa-Korean_War_Memorial011-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2010\/06\/South_Africa-Korean_War_Memorial011-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2010\/06\/South_Africa-Korean_War_Memorial011-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2010\/06\/South_Africa-Korean_War_Memorial011-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>The Korean War has many names. The South Koreans call it the 6.25 War, which reflects the date the war started (\uc721\uc774\uc624 \uc804\uc7c1), and the North Koreans call it the Fatherland Liberation War (\uc870\uad6d \ud574\ubc29 \uc804\uc7c1). The\u00a0number of\u00a0countries that fought in this war was numerous. Fighting on the side of the South Korea was the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/korean-war-memorials\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9823],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-korean-war-memorials"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}