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Korean War

Screenshot of a soldier from the war epic "Battle at Lake Changjin"

Chinese blockbuster war film salutes China’s military might and heroism

Media

“Battle at Lake Changjin” glorifies the Chinese troops that defeated the Americans — a fact disputed by historians — in a decisive battle during the Korean War. Historic parallels between the Korean War and the 21st century stand-off between the US and China is a big reason for the film’s popularity.

ruined homes in seoul during the korean war

Scenes from Seoul unearthed in unpublished collection of Korean war-era photos

History
an old building with large DMZ letters out front

More visitors are coming to the DMZ amid thawing relations with North Korea

Global Politics
Won Hyung-joon leads the Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra and hopes one day to perform together with North Korean musicians.

Why ‘Arirang’ is the perfect song for a divided Korea

Music
North Korean delegation

What do the North Koreans want?

Conflict
Sook Ei and George Lampman met at the US embassy in Seoul in the months before the start of the Korean War.

They got married in Seoul and a week later, China invaded

Conflict

A US Marine met his future wife at the US Embassy in Seoul just months before the start of the Korean War. Their love story spanned seven decades.

A South Korean policeman takes part in an anti-terror drill as part of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise in Seoul, South Korea, August 22, 2017.

South Koreans used to brush off talk of war. Now, they’re getting worried.

Conflict

In South Korea, people are starting to talk with family members about what would happen if war broke out between the US and North Korea.

US Air Force intelligence officer, Donald Nichols ran a covert network of spies who infiltrated North Korea and fed information back to Nichols' headquarters in South Korea. He trained and deployed hundreds of agents, many of whom were sent on suicide mis

This American spymaster from the Korean War was nearly forgotten

Conflict

The North Koreans called him “the king of US spies.” But the US military nearly erased the story of Donald Nichols, a US Air Force officer who played an outsized role in the Korean War.

Tearful reunion between families separated by the North and South Korean war.

North and South Korea renew plans to reunite families separated by war

Global Politics

South and North Korean families separated by more than six decades of war, will have another chance to reunite in October. A deal was reached between the two countries after nearly 24 hours of negotiations. Only 100 families will be selected from each side to meet. North and South Korea are legally still at war since the conflict from 1950-53 ended in a truce, rather than a peace treaty.

Lee Jin-ri had been abandoned at a "baby box" at South Korean church. The "baby box" is where mothers can leave unwanted infants. South Korea was the first country to send its babies abroad for adoption.

How South Korea became the first country to start international adoptions

Development

South Korea was the first country to begin sending babies to adoptive parents in other countries. It started in the aftermath of the Korean War as a way to remove the disgraced bi-racial babies of US soldiers and Korean women.