Imjingak park

Imjingak park is located 7 km from the Military Demarcation Line. it was bull with the hope that someday unification would be possible and holds events and memorials for that cause. Mangbaedan Alter is famous as the place where Korean’s separated from their families in the North visit to perform ancestral rites by bowing toward their hometowns every New Year’s Day and Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving). Half of Korean people were separated by the Korean War. 10 million (pop at time was 20 million; now 51 million). The Bridge of Freedom, which South Koreans crossed when they came back to their mother country from North Korea after the signing of the Armistice Agreement. Quick history lesson on Korea (thanks Wikipedia): The Korean Peninsula was first inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its first kingdomwas noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Silla and Balhae in the late 7th century, Korea was ruled by the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392) and the Joseondynasty (1392–1897). The succeeding Korean Empire (1897–1910) was annexed in 1910 into the Empire of Japan. In 1945, after the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Korea was divided into two zones along the 38th parallel, with the north occupied by the Soviet Union and the south occupied by the United States. In 1948, separate governments were formed in Korea: the socialist and Soviet-aligned Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the capitalist, Western-aligned Republic of Korea in the south. North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950 started the Korean War. In 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement brought about a ceasefireand established a demilitarized zone (DMZ), but no formal peace treaty has ever been signed.