PURPOSE

This United Nations Memorial Park is built and dedicated to honor the fallen of the United States and the United Nations member nations who sacrificed their lives while defending Korea and its people.

During the Korean War from 1950 to 1953, the United States and fifteen (15) other UN member nations put the lives of their brave and beloved sons, daughters, husbands, fathers, uncles, and aunts in the greatest danger to save Koreans, people whom most had never encountered. As result, 40,803 soldiers including 36,634 Americans died in the war. Far too many brave lives perished in gruesome agony in Korean mountain valleys, frozen foxholes, and muddy rice paddies.


At the groundbreaking ceremony for the Korean War Veterans Memorial Park in Washington in 1992, then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Gallucci spoke for the position of the United States, the largest foreign contributor of the Korean War. "The sons and daughters of our country honor them for responding to the call of the nation to defend a nation they have never known and a people they have never met," which is engraved on a monument at the Korean War Veterans Memorial Park in Washington, USA.


A single person who tragically loses their life in a traffic accident often becomes the subject of a major news story, so how much more significant are the casualties of the Korean War? This past is painful, but South Koreans want to remember forever each of those who gave their service and their precious lives.


The beneficiaries of these supreme sacrifices—South Koreans who have regained their valued lives and freedom and risen to build a world-class democracy and economy—want to create in Korea a Korean War United Nations Veterans Memorial to remember the precious lives forever.