Visit to UN First Battle Memorial Hall, Monument(Tower) & Its Peace Park
It has been known the first UN battle place is renovated in 5 Jul. 2020, three years ago. I had visited a couple of time, but it was my first visit for the memorial hall and its renowned peace park. Yesterday on Wednesday on 5 Jul. 2023 on the 73rd anniversary of the battle, I would like to visit there to remember the sacrifice of the Task Force Smith and their souls fallen down on this hill on the same day that day. From my house in Songpa-gu, Seoul, I and my wife drove my car on the highway of Yongin-Seoul and kept driving to arrive Dongtan lamp way. I passed through a downtown of Dongtan and tried to find the route for the monument, seeing the configuration of a front mountain and a national flag flagging over the range. I lost my way and found we were on the road where a city education office was seen on the eastern side of the monument hill. I later identified that the wrong road we took had been a main retreat route of the TF Smith, which was the rail ways. We finally...