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C-SPAN resources on the Korean War
C-SPAN classroom has provided a collection of video clips on the Korean War created by Jeremiah Rush who served as a C-SPAN Fellow during the summer of 2023.
SBS Hope TV Korean War Documentary
SBS Hope TV will air a special documentary on Korean War on June 25:
NK News: A Georgia town lays a Korean War veteran to rest, over 70 years after his death
News site NK News recently featured the story of Luther Story: An 18-year-old American private awarded the Medal of Honor for defending his company from North Korean attack has finally returned home, more than 70 years after he lost his life in the Korean War. Luther Herschel Story was laid to rest in his hometown […]
Dr. Han Appears on Smithsonian Channel Show
Dr. Jongwoo Han, President of the Korean War Legacy Foundation, will appear on an upcoming episode of the Smithsonian Channel’s Combat Ships series. The series will air on Sundays in the United States and Mondays in the United Kingdom. The first episode, Game Changers, will air February 27, 2022, in the US and February 28 […]
Radio Free Asia Coverage of World Congress
Radio Free Asia presented coverage of our recent World Congress of Teachers of the Korean War, held in Washington, D.C., in July, 2021.
New: KWLF Overview Video
We are pleased to announce the release of our new video – an overview of our archive of thousands of oral-history interviews from the Korean War.
The Diplomat: Engagement Is a Virtue, Especially on the Korean Peninsula
An article by Song Young Gil in The Diplomat, dated November 14, 2020, asserts that “[t]he incoming Biden administration has plenty to handle, but it should not forget the Korean Peninsula”: There was no “October surprise” this election cycle for the U.S. and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) — there wasn’t […]
Korean War Legacy Foundation to Host the 2020 World Congress of Teachers of the Korean War
The Korean War Legacy Foundation is honored to host the 2020 World Congress of Teachers of the Korean War to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the war. The conference will be a special online event on Saturday, December 12th from 9:00 am- 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time and will include 100 history and social science […]
The Korea Times: Veterans call for end to Korean War
A recent article in The Korea Times featured the Korean War Legacy Foundation and its work: An international call to bring an end to the Korean War and replace the Armistice Agreement with a peace treaty is reemerging through the voices of veterans amid the stalemate in U.S.-North Korea denuclearization talks and the upcoming U.S. […]
New Publication: Exploring and Teaching the Korean War
Exploring and Teaching the Korean War is a new secondary education publication of the Historical Association in partnership with the Korean War Legacy Foundation and World History Digital Education. The Korean War has been called ‘The Forgotten War’. Yet it was profoundly significant to the development of the Cold War. It had a cataclysmic impact […]