The bereaved families of South Korean servicemen killed in a 2002 naval battle against North Korea yesterday attend a ceremony in the southern Seoul suburb of Pyeongtaek to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong Island. They cry while touching bronze sculptures of the faces of the dead.

Via Donga Ilbo.

The West Sea Naval Battle ended in a humiliating defeat for the North Koreans, but it cost the lives of six ROK sailors.  The ruling South Korean Roh Moo-hyun government would go on to make excuses for the North Koreans and even imply that the ROK Navy was at fault for what happened.  The wife of one of the deceased sailors was so upset about the treatment of this issue by the ROK government that she left the country.

You read much more about the West Sea Naval Battle at my prior posting here.