The United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea
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What a wonderful blog, I visit all the cemeteries on the places in the world I travel too, this is such a serene and green memorial place, and UNMCK does a great job. Thank you for caring to send pictures to people who request that, and for the share.
Cemeteries and memorials also interest me a lot, O like learning about the past and often tombs amd graves tell us a lot about how the people want to be remembered. Oddly I've never been to the actual one in Seoul to take photos, although I have visited a few times.
In Italy where people are put in the wall there is so much traffic on burrial grounds its so comforting, whilst here in Holland all is quiet and you see not many people. I go always when i see a sign, everybody has his ode hobbies :)
I've never been in the crypts before. Tht does sound creepy.
I'm more into the well manicured lawn aspect and gardens than tombstones and skulls.
I wouldn't visit at night.
Fascinating. I didn't know this existed.
In lak'ech, JaiChai
It's not promoted by the tourist industry because it is free and the cannot sell souvenirs, so it's not popular. I like it because it is peaceful.
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The Korean war seems so distant now. One thing in that post which surprised me was the guy mowing the lawn with a gas-powered 2-stroke mower. Battery tech, especially in Korea has come along way and I feel that they can do better for the planet considering the planet came together and saved them. On a brighter note, those trees in the first moment are amazing.
Yeah, it is very well maintained. Some of my photos are 12 years old. I'm not sure how reliable battery powered lawnmowers were back then. They have 35 acres to mow, too.
A lot of people aren't too happy with the UN these days, but 70 years ago it was important.
That makes sense. Although the first Tesla is almost 12 years old and Korea is known for battery tech. I figure they would just use a ride-on for a lawn like that. I guess it's an honor for that person to mow it by hand.
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A long forgotten war remembered here in your stylish post my friend.
Good to see our South African soldiers resting there with their comrades.
A lovely post of remembrance here and that cemetery looks in in a great condition.
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Thanks. It's such am odd and forgotten war. I think people were relieved it didn't get completely out of hand like the two world wars before it.
I think they have a good budget for maintaining this place. National cemeteries tend to be good and soldiers usually have very nice burial places.
Sadly in our country that's not the case my friend. Vagrants raid the cemeteries and steal anything metal off the grave stones. They even break the head stones and slabs to get the metal off.
That's why that impeccable place that you posted is so neat and impressive.
That is a sad but interesting thing to learn. It's obvious people who do this are desparate.
People are not allowed into the cemetery at night. Korea used to be very poor until the late 1960s, but they used to gaurd places with guns back then and had military dictatorships. People still robbed from army bases, but getting caught wasn't fun.
Desperate times and desperate people my friend. However when they put other lives at risk by stealing the cast iron drain covers in the roads, then it becomes a dire situation. Syndicates organize the shipments of stolen metals from our country.
Great to see how Korea has advanced since the 60s.
I have heard of people trying to steal cables from live power mains there...even more dangerous.
I knew a US soldier who used to be posted in Korea during the late 1970s he said people would sneak on to military firing ranges and scramble to collect spent ammo shells from fired rounds. They risked ear damage from the noise. They would burn their hands picking it up because it was so hot. Shrapnel wounds were also very common. All for tiny pieces of scrap metal.
As an ex contractor I was the national manager for a company that worked on the live power cable towers my friend. Those big steel towers that one can see all over the world. I was told that a thief attached a saw blade to a long thin branch of a tree, climbed halfway up the tower and tried to cut one of the live cables. All that they found of him was one shoe and a piece of his watch.
Recently a fisherman caught fish under a bridge and his wet fishing rod tip was lifted near an low overhang of power cables. An arc struck his rod and he is still in hospital with very serious burns.
Just to tell you how dangerous it is.
I can believe your soldier tale as desperate people will do desperate things, but lately over here it is the drug use that drive them to do crazy things just so that they can buy their next fix.