Yeosu City Operates 'Online Memorial Hall' for Yeosun Incident...Spreading Waves of Remembrance

Contactless Memorial... Memorial Hall Opened on Yeosu City Website, Moment of Silence Siren to Sound at 10 AM on the 19th

Yeosu City (Mayor Kwon Oh-bong) will hold the 72nd Yeosu-Suncheon Incident Victims Joint Memorial Ceremony at 10 a.m. on the 19th in a scaled-down format due to COVID-19. To allow the wave of remembrance to spread throughout the region, an "Online Memorial Hall" has been opened on the city hall website and will be operated until the 19th.

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Yeosu City (Mayor Kwon Oh-bong) announced on the 14th that it has opened an ‘Online Memorial Hall’ to allow the wave of mourning to spread throughout the region, as the 72nd Yeosu-Suncheon Incident Victims Joint Memorial Ceremony, scheduled to be held around 10 a.m. on the 19th, will be held on a reduced scale due to COVID-19.

This year, bereaved families of fallen police officers were to attend the event in person, making it a historic memorial ceremony uniting civilians, government, military, and police for the first time in 72 years, inviting many citizens and bereaved families to create a place of reconciliation and coexistence.

Due to the impact of COVID-19, the number of attendees was inevitably reduced to around 100 people, leading to the establishment of a non-face-to-face online memorial hall so that people can pay tribute to the spirits of the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident victims from their own places.

The online memorial hall can be accessed through the ‘Yeosu-Suncheon Incident Online Memorial Hall’ in the popup zone on the Yeosu City website, where visitors can freely write memorial messages for the victims and suggestions related to the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident.

The city plans to collect the opinions left in the memorial hall and use them later for Yeosu-Suncheon Incident support projects and activities urging the enactment of a special law.

In addition, as part of the non-face-to-face memorial, a moment of silence siren will also sound.

For the second year in a row, at exactly 10 a.m. on the 19th, sirens will sound throughout Yeosu City, allowing citizens who cannot attend the memorial ceremony to have a moment of silence and pay tribute to the spirits of the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident victims.

A city official said, “This year marks the 72nd anniversary of the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident, and it is very regrettable that many citizens and bereaved families cannot attend due to the impact of COVID-19,” adding, “We ask that more citizens empathize with and participate in the scars of the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident and join forces for the prompt enactment of the special law.”

The Yeosu-Suncheon Incident is a painful history in which many local residents were innocently sacrificed amid the turbulent era of liberation on October 19, 1948. Since 2016, Yeosu City has held memorial ceremonies to honor the spirits of the victims of the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident.

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