
Final touches made on a replica of the Chamsuri high speed vessel at the War Memorial of Korea on Tuesday. The vessel sank in a June 2002 inter-Korean clash which claimed the lives of six S. Korean soldiers. A booth at the memorial displaying the life-size vessel opens Thursday. (Yonhap News)
By the way you can read more about the 2002 West Sea Naval Battle here.







11:32 am on June 3rd, 2010 1
I vehemently hope the memorial states all the efforts made by the government to keep the incident quiet so as to appease the North Koreans and to pretend all is well in never-never land.
It was a shamefull period in South Koreas history.
11:55 am on June 3rd, 2010 2
I'm afraid that with the recent election in ROK, that shameful period just might return again.
Sigh…
12:21 pm on June 3rd, 2010 3
Those were local elections, about bread-and-butter issues, and many in a public that found it annoying that Chonan was being made such a center-stage issue in local governance elections decided to vote a different way.
I wouldn't read too much into it vis-à-vis issues like North-South relations and national security.
3:45 pm on June 3rd, 2010 4
I thought that sailors were killed in the attack- are these craft crewed by Army guys?
12:56 pm on June 4th, 2010 5
I wonder when/if we'll see some of the smaller portions of the Cheonan displayed at the War Museum?
3:15 am on June 5th, 2010 6
Sailors on both sides died in that clash over a tiny patch of sea which is right next to the Northern mainland and far away from the Southern mainland. This senseless bloodshed will continue until a just settlement is finalized.
P.S.
Before the Japanese, Korea was united, let it be so again