Korea: 'An apology to Vietnam'

The Korean–Vietnamese Peace Foundation presented 52 documents and items to Danang Museum on October 11

Prominent among the items was the Pieta Vietnam, the Last Lullaby bronze statue, which depicts a Vietnamese woman embracing her child.

Others include: 30 photos on the “An apology to Vietnam” movement in the Republic of Korea, six pictures commemorating victims of massacres by the Korean troops in the anti-American resistance war in Vietnam, books and documentary films about the war.

This is an effort to heal wounds caused by Korean troops in the war.

Danang Museum will hold an exhibition featuring the documents and items.

In 2001, Kim Yeongman, a veteran who participated in the Vietnam War in 1966, visited Quang Thanh hill in Quang Ngai province to kneel for an apology to Vietnam and pray. Photo: Song Philkyung, from the Korean Medical Association for Peace in Vietnam.

The mass grave and the memorial stele for the Duy Nghia massacre in 1969 in Duy Nghia commune, Duy Xuyen district in Quang Nam. The photo was taken in July 2012 by Lee Jae Gab.

The Korea-Vietnam Peace Park in Dong Hoa district, Phu Yen province, where Korean troops killed civilians. The park was built with money donated by readers of the magazine Hankyoreh 21 in the campaign "An apology to Vietnam". The inauguration ceremony was held in January 2013. Photo: Hankyoreh 21.

In February 2013, a Korean gave a comforting hug to Mrs. Dang Thi Khoa, a survivor of the Ha My massacre which happened 48 years ago, when she cried at the 45th commemoration of the massacre held in Dien Duong Commune, Dien Ban Town in Quang Nam Province. Photo: Moon Yong Po.

In July 2014, Korean tourists offered incense in front of the Truong Dinh crater, in Binh Hoa commune, Binh Son district, Quang Ngai province, where the massacre of civilians by Korean soldiers occurred. Photo: Song Philkyung, chairman of the Korean Medical Association for Peace in Vietnam.

In July 2015, Zen master Myeong Jin, who participated in the Vietnam War in 1972, bowed in apology in front of the Phong Nhat Phong Nhi monument in Dien An commune, Dien Ban town, Quang Nam province. Photo: Kim Seongheon.

In February 2016, Professor Roh Hwa Wook - Chairman of the committee for the establishment of the Korean-Vietnamese Peace Fund - bowed in apology to the people at the 50th commemoration of the massacre in Bing An, Binh Dinh Province. Photo: Woohae Cho.

Mr. Loc, the eldest son of Mr. Nguyen Dan (a victim of the Phong Nhat - Phong Nhi massacre in Dien An commune, Dien Ban town, Quang Nam province in 1968) burned incense in front of his father’s altar on February 2nd 2016. Photo: Woohae Cho.

The things left after the death ceremony held by the villagers under a tree in front of the gate of Phong Nhat - Phong Nhi village in Dien An commune, the town of Dien Ban, Quang Nam on February 6, 2015. This tree was one of the places where the massacre happened in 1968. Photo: Woohae Cho.

Mr. Nguyen Lap, eldest son of Mrs. Pham Thi Hoa, a victim of the Ha My massacre, in Dien Duong Commune, Dien Ban Town, Quang Nam Province in 1968 burst into tears telling a Korean delegation about the massacre at his home on February 19th 2016. Photo: Woohae Cho.

In April 2016, Korean students offer flowers to the Pieta Vietnam statue at the press conference of the Committee for the establishment of the Korean-Vietnamese Peace Fund, held in Seoul, to celebrate the 41st year of the end of the Vietnam War.