6.25 70주년, '끝까지 찾아야 할 태극기 122,609' 캠페인<br /><br />To remember all those who sacrificed their lives in the Korean War, a special campaign is taking place.<br />It's called the 122-6-0-9 Taegeukgi To Be Found.<br />Taegeukgi is the Korean national flag and 122-thousand-6-hundred and 9 refers to the number of those who perished during the war and have yet been recovered.<br />Our Choi Won-jong has the story behind this heartfelt campaign.<br />Three years of fierce battles between the two Koreas from 1950 to 1953.<br />The Korean War left more than one-hundred-37 thousand South Korean soldiers dead.<br />But, after 70 years, the remains of some one-hundred-22-thousand six-hundred-nine soldiers have not yet been returned to their families.<br />To commemorate this forgotten war and to honor those who sacrificed their lives, one professor from Seoul has come up with the so-called 'One-hundred-22-thousand six-hundred-nine Taegeukgi To Be Found' campaign.<br />"With it being the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, the biggest motivation and the goal of this campaign was to create a touching symbol that would reach many generations.<br />This less than one-inch long badge represents the way the Korean flag appears when draped over a small casket containing the remains of deceased service members.<br />In partnership with the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, people can apply to receive one of these badges online or via an app on a first-come-first served basis...to be collected from GS25 convenience stores and branches of Nonghyup Bank.<br />To help spread the word and further raise awareness, a group of students have taken to social media.<br />"We found leading the campaign through social media was the most effective, as we were trying to come up with a platform that people in their 20s can utilize the most."<br />Initially there were only 200 social media posts of people sharing images of their badges but just a month later...the campaign had more than 500.<br />122,609. Not just numbers on a badge, but the number of individual souls still not fully at rest even after 70 years. They will be forever remembered. Choi Won-jong, Arirang News.<br />
