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Out of the Shadows Inquiry

Out of the Shadows Inquiry

Out of the Shadows: A Spotlight on Underrepresented Korean War Veteran Groups from the Library of Congress Veterans History Project was designed to connect students to the stories of underrepresented veteran groups from the Korean War. Through grant partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region Program, coordinated by Waynesburg University, KWLF […]

5th Annual World Congress of Teachers: Cambridge, United Kingdom

5th Annual World Congress of Teachers: Cambridge, United Kingdom

The Korean War Legacy Foundation is honored to partner with the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, R.O.K, to host the 2024 World Congress of Teachers in Cambridge, UK. Dignitaries from the UK and Republic of Korea will join teachers from all twenty-two United Nations countries that participated in the Korean War to share ideas […]

C-SPAN resources on the Korean War

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 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

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. 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 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

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

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

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 […]