Woman Wearing Jeogori, Man with Hands Behind Back Under Thatched Roof... Unreleased Korean War Photos

1950s Through the Eyes of a French War Veteran... Exhibition at Paris Korean Cultural Center
Over 20 Photos Taken by Mr. Andre Dachari Also Revealed

Photo of French soldiers resting, taken by Andre Dachari. [Photo by the South Europe Council of the National Unification Advisory Council]

The French Cultural Center in Paris will hold an exhibition from the 16th of this month until the 15th of next month to honor French soldiers who participated in the Korean War.

This event is organized to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice and to share testimonies and photographs of French veterans. The exhibition is titled "Forever in Your Memory."

The children in the photos are dressed in hanbok. There is a woman holding a young boy posing in front of the camera. Another scene shows a woman wearing a jeogori breastfeeding a child, with a foreign soldier wearing sunglasses resting nearby. French veterans are also seen sitting on the grass in their underwear playing cards, and there is an image of a woman carrying a child on her back. These depict everyday life during the Korean War in 1950.

A distant view of the Han River photographed by Mr. Andre Dachari.
[Photo by the South Europe Council of the National Unification Advisory Council.]

In the second annual photo exhibition, following last year, portraits of six veterans taken by photographer Shin Jung-hwan (43), who serves as the chairman of the Youth Committee of the South Europe Council of the National Unification Advisory Council, will also be displayed.

The exhibition will also feature more than 20 photographs taken by veteran Andr? Dachary (91), who served in Korea from March 1953 to August 1954, capturing daily life in places such as Yongsan, Seoul.

Dachary preserved 99 photographic films for 70 years, which he took with a camera he won by chance while en route to Korea for the Korean War. These photos of Korean landscapes and people are being revealed to the public for the first time.

[Photo by Namyureop Council of the National Unification Advisory Council]

Among the 3,421 French soldiers who participated in the Korean War, which broke out on June 25, 1950, and ended with an armistice on July 27, 1953, 292 died (268 French nationals and 24 Koreans belonging to the French Battalion).

A photo of a gate presumed to have been taken in Seoul, photographed by Mr. Andre Dachari.
[Photo by the South Europe Council of the National Unification Advisory Council]

The photo shows children wearing hanbok, taken by Mr. Andre Dachari.
[Photo courtesy of the South Europe Council of the National Unification Advisory Council]

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