'Hwasalmeori Hill Peace Memorial Hall'... Gangwon Province to Start Project from Next Year

Secured 19.1 Billion KRW of National Funding Out of Total Project Cost of 28.3 Billion KRW

Recovery of ROK Army Remains at Hwaseolmori Hill, Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do [Asia Economy DB]

[Asia Economy Reporter Ra Young-cheol] One of Gangwon Province's major pending projects, the 'Hwaseolmori Hill Peace Memorial Hall Construction Project,' will be in full swing starting next year.

According to Gangwon Province on the 7th, out of the total project cost of 28.3 billion KRW for the 'Hwaseolmori Hill Peace Memorial Hall Construction,' 19.1 billion KRW, including 1.2 billion KRW for next year's budget, has been secured and is planned to be invested annually until 2025.

The 'Hwaseolmori Hill Peace Memorial Hall' will be built near the Baengmagoji War Memorial in Cheorwon, consisting of one underground floor and three above-ground floors.

A complex space in the form of a 'Larchive (Library + Archive + Museum)' will be established, embodying visions of peace and hope for healing the history of division and social wounds and restoring the inter-Korean community.

Previously, the province selected the 'Hwaseolmori Hill Peace Memorial Hall Construction Project' as a major pending issue and repeatedly proposed the necessity of the memorial hall's construction and national funding support to the Ministry of Unification and the Ministry of Economy and Finance through government cooperation channels.

Additionally, they requested national funding support from the Ministry of Economy and Finance through comprehensive cooperation with local lawmakers, including those from Cheorwon County.

Park Yong-sik, head of the Gangwon Province Peace Region Development Headquarters, said, "We will create the Hwaseolmori Hill Peace Memorial Hall as a symbolic space of peace and harmony and strive to revitalize the peace region by discovering various projects linked to the memorial hall in the future."

Meanwhile, 'Hwaseolmori Hill' is regarded as a historically significant site where fierce hill battles took place during the Korean War in June 1953, and it is estimated that many remains of the Republic of Korea Army, Chinese People's Volunteer Army, and participating UN forces are present, making it a historically symbolic place for the first joint excavation of remains between South and North Korea.

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