Gwangju Veterans Office Launches Campaign to Promote 'UN Veterans International Remembrance Day'
[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] The Gwangju Regional Veterans Office (Director Im Seonghyun) announced on the 10th that it conducted the 'Turn Toward Busan' promotional campaign on the 9th.
The Turn Toward Busan campaign is an event to pay tribute toward Busan, which has the world's only UN Memorial Cemetery, ahead of the 'UN Veterans International Memorial Day (November 11)'.
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Proposed by Canadian Korean War veteran Vincent Courtney, since 2007, every year on November 11 at 11 a.m., people worldwide observe a one-minute moment of silence facing the Busan UN Memorial Cemetery (11 countries, 2,309 graves), the world's only UN cemetery.
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