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KDVA and KUSAF Message 75th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Korean War June 2025

KDVA and KUSAF Message
75th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Korean War
June 2025
ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ ๋ฐœ๋ฐœ 75 ์ฃผ๋…„์— ์ฆˆ์Œํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ๊ณต๋™๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€ 2025 ๋…„ 6 ์›”

Seventy-five years ago, on June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel and launched an unprovoked invasion of the Republic of Korea. This act of aggression marked the start of a brutal war that would take the lives of millions and forever alter the course of Korean and American history.

75 ๋…„ ์ „์ธ 1950 ๋…„ 6 ์›” 25 ์ผ, ๋ถํ•œ๊ตฐ์ด 38 ์„ ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์„ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ์นจ๋žตํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ์ด ๋ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์นจ๋žต์€ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ๋ชฉ์ˆจ์„ ์•—์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์˜์›ํžˆ ๋’คํ”๋“  ์ฐธํ˜นํ•œ ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์„œ๋ง‰์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

More than 1.8 million Americans and 2.5 million South Koreans answered the call to defend freedom during the Korean War. Over 36,000 Americans and 137,000 South Korean troops lost their lives, and countless others returned home carrying the physical and emotional scars of war.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ ๋‹น์‹œ, 180 ๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๊ณผ 250 ๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ด ์ž์œ  ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์— ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ 3๋งŒ 6์ฒœ์—ฌ ๋ช…์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์žฅ๋ณ‘๊ณผ 13๋งŒ 7์ฒœ์—ฌ ๋ช…์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ตฐ ์žฅ๋ณ‘์ด ๊ณ ๊ท€ํ•œ ์ƒ๋ช…์„ ๋ฐ”์ณค์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์ด ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์‹ ์ฒด์ ยท์ •์‹ ์  ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•ˆ๊ณ  ๊ท€ํ™˜ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

On this solemn anniversary, the Korea-US Alliance Foundation (KUSAF) and the Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) join together to honor the courage, sacrifice, and legacy of these brave Veterans and their Families.

์ด ์—„์ˆ™ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋…์ผ์„ ๋งž์•„, ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํž˜์„ ๋ชจ์•„, ์ด ์šฉ๊ฐํ•œ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ์™€ ํฌ์ƒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ท€ํ•œ ์ •์‹ ์„ ๊ฒฝ๊ฑดํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

We remember the fierce battles fought at places like the Pusan Perimeter, Incheon, the Chosin Reservoir, and Heartbreak Ridge. We remember the Families who waited, prayed, and endured. And we remember the enduring values of liberty, democracy, and partnership that were defended on the Korean Peninsula and still define the ROK-U.S. Alliance today.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ถ€์‚ฐ ๊ต๋‘๋ณด, ์ธ์ฒœ์ƒ๋ฅ™์ž‘์ „, ์žฅ์ง„ํ˜ธ ์ „ํˆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์žฅ์˜ ๋Šฅ์„  ๋“ฑ์ง€์—์„œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง„ ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ์ „ํˆฌ๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ธ๋‚ด๋กœ ๊ฒฌ๋ŽŒ๋‚ธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์˜ ์ˆญ๊ณ ํ•œ ํฌ์ƒ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„์—์„œ ์ง€์ผœ๋‚ธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์—๋„ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์˜ ๊ทผ๊ฐ„์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ์ž์œ ์™€ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์˜์›ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์žŠ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Since the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, the ROK-U.S. Alliance has become one of the most successful and enduring military and diplomatic partnerships in the world. This special bond is a living tribute to the Veterans who fought side by side and a commitment to regional security, shared prosperity, and enduring friendships.

1953 ๋…„ 7 ์›” 27 ์ผ ์ •์ „ํ˜‘์ • ์ฒด๊ฒฐ ์ดํ›„, ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์ ยท์™ธ๊ต์  ๋™๋งน์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋งค๊น€ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์œ ๋Œ€๋Š” ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹ธ์šด ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆ๋ฉธ์˜ ์ฐฌ์‚ฌ์ด์ž, ์ง€์—ญ ์•ˆ๋ณด์™€ ๊ณต๋™ ๋ฒˆ์˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†๋Š” ์šฐ์ •์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๊ตณ๊ฑดํ•œ ํ—Œ์‹ ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

At this 75-year mark, KDVA and KUSAF are faithfully carrying forward the legacy of Korean War Veterans and their Families through a wide range of programs and initiatives:

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์™€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ ๋ฐœ๋ฐœ 75 ์ฃผ๋…„์„ ๋งž์•„, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๊ณผ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ๋‚จ๊ธด ๊ณ ๊ท€ํ•œ ์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ์ถฉ์‹คํžˆ ๊ณ„์Šนํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Honoring Veterans: Supporting commemorations at the Korean War Veterans Memorial and War Memorial of Korea as well as ensuring Veterans are remembered through events like the KDVA Korea Chapterโ€™s Education Seminars with U.S. Forces Korea and Meet & Greets at KDVAโ€™s six U.S. chapter locations.
  • ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ ์ถ”๋ชจ ๋ฐ ์˜ˆ์šฐ: ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ๊ธฐ๋…๊ด€๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ๋…๋น„์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ถ”๋ชจ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ต์œก ์„ธ๋ฏธ๋‚˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด 6 ๊ฐœ ์ฑ•ํ„ฐ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งŒ๋‚จ ๋ฐ ๊ต๋ฅ˜ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ์ˆญ๊ณ ํ•œ ํฌ์ƒ๊ณผ ํ—Œ์‹ ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์šฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Telling Their Stories: Documenting and sharing the stories of Korean War Veterans and their Families through public outreach and educational materials like the special KDVA Journal and KUSAF Newsletter dedicated to Korean War Veterans and their Families โ€“ all captured in the KDVA Digital Library and KUSAF Homepage.
  • ํ—Œ์‹ ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ๊ณต์œ : ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ ๋‰ด์Šค๋ ˆํ„ฐ์™€ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ ์ €๋„ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€์™€ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋„์„œ๊ด€์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์—ด๋žŒํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Inspiring the Future: Connecting generations through programs like KDVA Campus Clubs and intergenerational mentorship in the KUSAF U-SPECK Program, KUSAF Korean War Essay Contest for Middle and High School Students, and KDVA Internship Program.
  • ์„ธ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ž‡๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ: ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์บ ํผ์Šค ํด๋Ÿฝ, ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ U-SPECK ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์™€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ์˜ ์ธํ„ด์‹ญ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, ์ค‘ยท๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ ์—์„ธ์ด ์ปจํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ๋“ฑ์€ ์„ธ๋Œ€ ๊ฐ„ ๋ฉ˜ํ† ๋ง์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฒญ๋…„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ , ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ์ •์‹ ๊ณผ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์Œ ์„ธ๋Œ€์— ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ต ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Enhancing the Alliance: Promoting public awareness and understanding of the ROK-U.S. Alliance through leadership dialogues, think tank partnerships, senior leader visits, and bilateral engagements.
  • ๋™๋งน ๊ฐ•ํ™”: ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ๋Œ€ํ™”, ์‹ฑํฌํƒฑํฌ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ, ๊ณ ์œ„ ์ง€๋„์ž ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–‘์ž ๊ต๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€์ค‘์˜ ์ธ์‹๊ณผ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ฆ์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    The ROK-U.S. Alliance, built upon the sacrifices of war and our veterans, has endured for over 70 years. During this time, approximately 3.3 million U.S. troops have served in Korea, helping to deter war and contributing to the nationโ€™s economic development and democratic progress. Even in times of peace, 103 lives have been lost due to North Koreaโ€™s continued acts of hostility. The United States and the Republic of Korea have also shed blood together in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, standing side by side in defense of shared values. Through these shared sacrifices and unwavering commitment, the ROK-U.S. Alliance remains strong to this day.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ํฌ์ƒ์„๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ์ด์–ด์ ธ์˜จํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€์ง€๋‚œ70 ์—ฌ๋…„๊ฐ„์•ฝ330 ๋งŒ๋ช…์˜ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ด๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•˜๋ฉฐ์ „์Ÿ์„์–ต์ œํ•˜๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฐœ์ „๊ณผ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์ ์ฐฉ์„์œ„ํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๋™์•ˆ์—๋„๋ถํ•œ์˜์ง€์†์ ์ธ์ ๋Œ€ํ–‰์œ„๋กœ์ธํ•ด103๋ช…์˜์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ์ƒ๋ช…์ด ํฌ์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ์–‘๊ตญ์€๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ, ์•„ํ”„๊ฐ€๋‹ˆ์Šคํƒ„, ์ด๋ผํฌ๋“ฑ์ง€์—์„œ๋„ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ”ผ๋ฅผํ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ์‹ธ์›Œ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€๊ณต๋™์˜ํฌ์ƒ๊ณผํ—Œ์‹ ์„๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ๊นŒ์ง€๊ตณ๊ฑดํžˆ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

As we mark this historic milestone, KUSAF and KDVA reaffirm our shared efforts to remember and support our Veterans, to educate future generations about the meaning of the Korean War, and to strengthen the bonds between our two nations. We hope this meaningful day serves as an opportunity for the people of both the Republic of Korea and the United States to reflect o nthe solemn truth that “freedom is not free.” to reaffirm their commitment to strengthening the ROK-U.S. Alliance, and to uphold the values of freedom and democracy. Please join us ni this noble work (membership is always free!) at KDVA.vet.

์ด์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ์ด์ •ํ‘œ๋ฅผ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ๊ณผ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š”์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ ์ง์›ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ ๋ž˜ ์„ธ ๋Œ€ ์— ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ๊ตญ ์ „ ์Ÿ ์˜ ์˜ ๋ฏธ ๋ฅผ ์•Œ ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ , ์–‘ ๊ตญ ๊ฐ„ ์œ  ๋Œ€ ๊ฐ ์„ ๋” ์šฑ ๊ฐ• ํ™” ํ•˜ ๊ธฐ ์œ„ ํ•œ ๊ณต ๋™ ์˜ ๋…ธ ๋ ฅ ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆํ™•์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ์–‘๊ตญ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€”์ž์œ ๋Š”๊ฒฐ์ฝ”๊ณต์งœ๊ฐ€์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.”๋ผ๋Š”์ˆญ๊ณ ํ•œ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ๋˜์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„๊ตณ๊ฑดํžˆํ•˜๊ณ ์ž์œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธํ•˜๋ ค๋Š”์˜์ง€๋ฅผ๋‹ค์ง€๋Š”๋œป๊นŠ์€๋‚ ์ด๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋ฅผ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜์…”์„œ์ด๊ณ ๊ท€ํ•œ์—ฌ์ •์—ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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( ํšŒ์› ๊ฐ€์ž…์€์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!)
“Together for the ROK-U.S. Alliance” ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด์š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน!

Robert B. โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams

General, U.S. Army (Retired)

President, KDVA

๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ B. โ€œ์—์ด๋ธŒโ€ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์œก๊ตฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ (์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ)

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์žฅ

Leem, Ho Young

General, ROK Army (Retired)

President, KUSAF

์ž„ํ˜ธ์˜

๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์œก๊ตฐ๋Œ€์žฅ (์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ)

ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ ํšŒ์žฅ

KUSAF and KDVA Joint Message for 75th Korean War Anniversary_Final_20250623

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KDVA Introduces the 1st U.S. KDVA Campus Club

KDVA Introduces the 1st KDVA Campus Club of 2025 in Korea

The Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) is very excited to announce the 1st Campus Club of 2025 in Korea. KDVA Campus Club at Pyeongtaek University located in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. The KDVA Campus Club (KCC) is led by Club President Kim Jun, with support from Professor Han Ki-jung, Faculty Advisor.

The Pyeongtaek University KDVA Campus Club (PTU KCC) is excited to bring together students with common interests toย increase awareness and advocacy of the ROK-U.S. Alliance and our Veterans. With the support of KDVA, they will host Meet and Greets, Webinars, Conferences, Korean Cultural Experiences, and more.

Club President, Kim Jun said, โ€œIโ€™m truly excited and honored to take the first step of KCC together with our students in PTU. KCC was founded out of a shared love for Korean culture and a desire to share it with others.

Through topics like food, music, traditions, and language, we hope to learn from one another, connect, and create meaningful and enjoyable experiences.

I hope our small community becomes a space where hearts are connected through culture, and where greater understanding and friendship can grow. Thank you sincerely to everyone who has supported the launch of KCC โ€” we look forward to this journey with you!โ€

Professor Han Ki-jung said, โ€œI believe the PTU KCC will play a small but meaningful role in enhancing cultural understanding between Korea and the United States and in further strengthening the robust alliance between our two nations. Culture serves as the foundation of diplomacy, and each of your efforts will be a valuable step toward expanding the grassroots of the ROK-U.S. Alliance.โ€

The Pyeongtaek KCC will hold its Launch Meet & Greet on, Monday, June 23 at 2:00 PM, Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor, Munmu-Gwan, Pyeongtaek University. Whether you are a KDVA member or not, you are invited โ€“ for free!

KDVA Campus Clubs are on college campuses in the United States and Korea. KCCs support KDVA’sย mission of enhancing and supportingย the ROK-U.S.ย Allianceย and our Veteransย on college campuses.ย Anyone can start a KCC and run the Campus Club as its President. KDVA HQ provides all the funds, social media support, and senior Alliance leaders to participate in person or by Zoom. You just need to register the KCC at your school and come up with ideas for activities and events.

If youโ€™re interested in learning more about starting a KDVA Campus Club at your school, please contact KDVA Campus Club Coordinator Ambrie Jones atย ambrie.kdva@gmail.com.ย  And join KDVA for free, yes for free, at kdva.vet/join-kdva.

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KDVA ROK-U.S. Alliance Journal – 2025 2nd Quarter

2025 2nd Quarter Edition

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KDVA Celebrates 81st Eighth Army Founding Day on June 10, 2025

June 10, 2025

KDVA Celebrates 81st Eighth Army Founding Day on June 10, 2025

 

The Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) proudly honors the U.S. Eighth Army on the occasion of its 81st Founding Day.

Since June 10, 1944, the Eighth Army has stood as a powerful symbol of strength and resolve, beginning in the Pacific during World War II and continuing today on the Korean Peninsula. Millions of U.S. Soldiers and KATUSAs (Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army) have served together under the Eighth Armyโ€™s banner — fighting in the Korean War, defending the Republic of Korea, and protecting the security of Northeast Asia.

Today, the Eighth Army remains a dynamic force in the defense of South Korea and a cornerstone of the ROK-U.S. Alliance. As a former Commander of United Nations Command, ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea, I am very proud of the U.S. Armyโ€™s longstanding commitment and strength in this part of the world that is vital to Americaโ€™s national interests.

KDVAโ€™s mission is to support the ROK-U.S. Alliance and honor our Veterans. Recognizing and standing with the Eighth Army are essential to fulfilling this mission. We encourage our members, supporters, and all who value peace and security on the Korean Peninsula to join KDVA in thanking our Soldiers.

We are, โ€œTogether for the ROK-U.S. Allianceโ€!

Robert B. โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams

General, U.S. Army (Retired)

Chairman & President

Korea Defense Veterans Association

 

KDVA membership is free at https://kdva.vet/join-kdva.

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Inaugural Message from New KDVA Chairman and President General (Ret.) Robert B. โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams

Inaugural Message from New KDVA Chairman and President

General (Ret.) Robert B. โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams

June 1, 2025

์‹ ์ž„ KDVA ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ์ทจ์ž„์‚ฌ

๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ โ€œ์—์ด๋ธŒโ€ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋Œ€์žฅ
2025๋…„ 6์›” 1์ผ

Dear KDVA Members, Friends, and Supporters,

KDVA์˜ ํšŒ์›, ์ง€์ง€์ž, ํ›„์›์ž ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„,

I am truly honored to step into the role of KDVA Chairman and President. As I begin this new chapter, I do so with great respect for the legacy of leadership that has brought KDVA to where it stands today, especially the dedicated service of General (Ret.) Mike Scaparrotti. I thank him for his leadership and friendship, and I am grateful that he will continue to serve KDVA as a trusted Advisor.

KDVA ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์†Œ์ž„์„ ๋‹คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์˜๊ด‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฌ์ •์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ KDVA๋ฅผ ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ์œ„์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ˆ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ, ๋งˆ์ดํฌ ์Šค์นดํŒŒ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋Œ€์žฅ์˜ ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์ธ ๋ด‰์‚ฌ์— ๊นŠ์€ ์กด๊ฒฝ์„ ํ‘œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋ž˜๋„๋ก ๊ธฐ์–ต๋  ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ๊ณผ ์šฐ์ •์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ KDVA์— ๊ณ„์† ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ๊ฒƒ์— ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KDVA is a unique and powerful organization. We are a community bound by shared experiences and a common mission: to honor those who have served in Korea and to enhance the enduring ROK-U.S. Alliance. From my time as Commander of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea, I saw firsthand the strength of this Alliance. Iโ€™ve walked along the DMZ, stood shoulder to shoulder with Korean and American troops, and witnessed the extraordinary commitment of Veterans who defended freedom and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

KDVA๋Š” ๋…ํŠนํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์กฐ์ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ ์ด๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ณ ํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ณต๋™์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ ๊ณต๋™์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ์—”๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€, ์—ฐํ•ฉ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ•˜๋˜ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์ด ๋™๋งน์˜ ํž˜์„ ๋ชธ์†Œ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง์ ‘ ๋น„๋ฌด์žฅ์ง€๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๊ณ , ํ•œ๋ฏธ ์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค๊ณผ ์–ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„์˜ ์ž์œ ์™€ ์•ˆ์ •์„ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธํ•œ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ํ—Œ์‹ ์„ ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Today, our mission is as important as ever. The KDVA Strategic Plan for 2025โ€“2029 outlines an ambitious roadmap to grow our membership, deepen our engagement, and expand our impact. We will build stronger connections among our 46,000 members and more than 116,000 social media followers. We will amplify the voices of Veterans and ensure the next generation understands the vital role they played — and continue to play — in defending peace and democracy.

์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์€ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025โ€“2029 KDVA ์ „๋žต ๊ณ„ํš ์€ ํšŒ์› ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ , ์‚ฌํšŒ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์•ผ์‹ฌ์ฐฌ ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 46,000๋ช…์˜ ํšŒ์›๊ณผ 116,000๋ช…์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ํŒ”๋กœ์›Œ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์œ ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ , ๋‹ค์Œ ์„ธ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์ด ํฌ์ƒ์ด ํ‰ํ™”์™€ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I look forward to working alongside our new Vice Chairman, LTG (Ret.) Mike Bills, our Board of Directors, Advisors, dedicated staff, and tireless volunteers. Together, we will expand KDVAโ€™s reach, foster new partnerships, and deliver programs that reflect the honor and pride of our service.

์‹ ์ž„ ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ ๋นŒ์Šค ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์ค‘์žฅ, ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ, ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›๋‹จ, ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์ธ ์ง์›๋“ค,ย ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ˆ˜๊ณ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•จ๊ป˜ KDVA์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ณต๋ฌด์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ๋ช…์˜ˆ์™€ ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋“ค์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

To our members and supporters: this is your Association. Your service, stories, and support make KDVA what it is. I invite each of you to stay engaged, bring in new members, and share your experiences. If you havenโ€™t already, please connect with us online, attend an event, or join a chapter or campus club.

ํšŒ์› ๋ฐ ์ง€์ง€์ž ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, KDVA๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ๋‹จ์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ๋ณต๋ฌด ๊ฒฝํ—˜, ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ,ย ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€๊ฐ€ KDVA๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํšŒ์›์„ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ , ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง KDVA์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ , ๊ฐ์ข… ํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ง€๋ถ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์บ ํผ์Šค ํด๋Ÿฝ์— ํž˜์„ ๋ณดํƒœ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

As we move forward, we do so united by purpose, driven by service, and committed to building an even stronger ROK-U.S. Alliance.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณต๋™์˜ ๋ชฉ์  ์•„๋ž˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋ญ‰์ณ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ , ๋ด‰์‚ฌ์˜ ์ •์‹ ์— ์˜ํ•ด ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œTogether for the ROK-U.S. Alliance,โ€

โ€œํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ, ํ•จ๊ป˜!โ€

 

Robert B. โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams

General, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Chairman & President

Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA)

๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ B. โ€œ์—์ด๋ธŒโ€ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค
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Farewell Message from General (Ret.) Curtis M. Scaparrotti

Farewell Message from General (Ret.) Curtis M. Scaparrotti

Outgoing KDVA Chairman and President

May 29, 2025

์ปคํ‹ฐ์Šค M. ์Šค์นดํŒŒ๋กœํ‹ฐ(Curtis M. Scaparrotti) ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์žฅ๊ตฐ ์ „์–ธ

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ์ด์ž„์ž

2025๋…„ 5์›” 29์ผ

Gen. (Ret.) Curtis Scaparrotti

Outgoing KDVA Chairman & President

์ปคํ‹ฐ์Šค M. ์Šค์นดํŒŒ๋กœํ‹ฐ (์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋Œ€์žฅ)

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ (KDVA) ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ์ด์ž„์ž

 

To the Members and Supporters of KDVA,

KDVA์˜ ํšŒ์› ๋ฐ ์ง€์ง€์ž ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜,

As I complete my tenure as Chairman and President of the Korea Defense Veterans Association, I do so with a deep sense of pride, gratitude, and optimism for the future of this extraordinary organization. It has been an honor to serve alongside so many of you — Veterans, family members, supporters, and advocates of the ROK-U.S. Alliance — who have committed yourselves to a cause greater than any one individual: honoring our service and strengthening the enduring bond between the Republic of Korea and the United States.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ(KDVA)์˜ ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ž„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์น˜๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ด ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋А๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์œ ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ตฐ ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•ด ์˜ค์‹  ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ, ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ถ„๋“ค, ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์ง€์ง€์ž ๋ฐ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน ์˜นํ˜ธ์ž ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ ํฐ ์˜๊ด‘์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

When I began this role in 2023, I set out to listen, learn, and lead with humility and purpose. My 41+ years in uniform taught me that real leadership is grounded in service and unity. From my days commanding in Korea to my time working with KDVAโ€™s dedicated team, Iโ€™ve witnessed firsthand the powerful legacy of our Alliance — an alliance built not just on a mutual defense treaty and military commands, but on friendships, sacrifice, and shared values.

2023๋…„์— ์ด ์ง์ฑ…์„ ๋งก์•˜์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ฒธ์†ํ•จ๊ณผ ๋ชฉ์ ์˜์‹์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋Œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‹ค์งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 41๋…„์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ๋ณต๋ฌด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์ด๋ž€ ๋ด‰์‚ฌ ์ •์‹ ๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋™์‹ฌ์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ์ง€ํœ˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด KDVA์˜ ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์ธ ํŒ€๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€, ์ €๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋™๋งน์ด ์ง€๋‹Œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ์ƒํ˜ธ ๋ฐฉ์œ„ ์กฐ์•ฝ๊ณผ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ๋ช…๋ น์ฒด๊ณ„์— ์˜ํ•ด์„œ๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์šฐ์ •๊ณผ ํฌ์ƒ, ๊ณต์œ ๋œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์œ„์— ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋œ ๊ณต๊ณ ํ•œ ๋™๋งน์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Together, weโ€™ve achieved so much. We increased our membership (over 46,000 with over 116,000 social media followers), opened KDVA Chapters all over the United States, launched impactful programs, supported our Veterans, and reached across generations and borders to make sure that our stories are told and our voices are heard. The recently launched 2025-2029 KDVA Strategic Plan sets a bold and clear path forward to grow our membership, amplify our voice in Alliance discussions, and foster deep relationships with those who have served — and still serving — in Korea.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ํšŒ์› ์ˆ˜๋Š” 46,000๋ช…์„ ๋„˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ํŒ”๋กœ์›Œ๋Š” 116,000๋ช…์ด ๋„˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์— KDVA ์ง€๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ , ์„ธ๋Œ€์™€ ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ „๋‹ฌ๋˜๊ณ  ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„๋ฆฌ ํผ์ง€๋„๋ก ํž˜์ผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ 2025-2029 KDVA ์ „๋žต ๊ณ„ํš์€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํšŒ์› ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ , ๋™๋งน ๊ด€๋ จ ๋…ผ์˜์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ˜„์žฌ๋„ ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ค‘์ธ ๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊นŠ์€ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ€๋‹ดํ•œ ๋น„์ „์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

None of this would have been possible without the exceptional people at KDVA, our board members, advisors, volunteers, and staff … and especially without the unrelenting support of our fundraising partner, the Korea-US Alliance Foundation (KUSAF). I am truly thankful.

์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ผ์€ KDVA์˜ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์ธ์žฌ๋“ค, ์ด์‚ฌ์ง„, ๊ณ ๋ฌธ๋‹จ, ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž ๋ฐ ์ง์›๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŠนํžˆ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ์„ ์กฐ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ(KUSAF)์˜ ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ์ง€์›์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I am proud to pass the torch to a friend, a trusted colleague, and a proven leader, General (Ret.) Robert B. โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams. With Lieutenant General (Ret.) Mike Bills stepping in as Vice Chairman, I know that KDVAโ€™s leadership is in trusted hands. Their experience, vision, and dedication will propel KDVA into its next era of growth and impact.

์˜ค๋žœ ์นœ๊ตฌ์ด์ž ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋™๋ฃŒ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ž…์ฆ๋œ ๋ฆฌ๋”์ธ ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ B. โ€œ์—์ด๋ธŒโ€ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋Œ€์žฅ์—๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ด์ž„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ ๋นŒ์Šค ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์ค‘์žฅ์ด ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ KDVA์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์€ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งก๊ฒจ์กŒ์Œ์„ ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜, ๋น„์ „, ํ—Œ์‹ ์€ KDVA๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๋”์šฑ ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•˜๋„๋ก ์ด๋Œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Though I am stepping down from this role, Iโ€™m not stepping away. I look forward to continuing to serve as a member of the KDVA Council of Advisors, where I will remain committed to advancing KDVAโ€™s mission and supporting the great Alliance that means so much to all of us.

๋น„๋ก ์ €๋Š” ์ด ์—ญํ• ์—์„œ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์ง€๋งŒ, KDVA ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›ํšŒ ์œ„์›์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋ฉฐ KDVA์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ง€์›ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Thank you for the privilege to serve with you. I encourage each of you to stay engaged, share your stories, and invite others to join us. The work of KDVA is far from finished, and its future is brighter than ever.

์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ ํฐ ํŠน๊ถŒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํž˜์„ ๋ณดํƒœ๊ณ , ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ฉฐ, ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์ด ์ „์šฐํšŒ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. KDVA๊ฐ€ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐˆ ์›๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฌ์ •์€ ๊ธฐ๋‚˜๊ธธ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

With sincere gratitude, respect, and always, โ€œTogether for the ROK-U.S. Alliance,โ€

์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์™€ ์กด๊ฒฝ์„ ๋‹ด์•„, ํ•ญ์ƒ โ€œํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ, ํ•จ๊ป˜!โ€

Curtis M. Scaparrotti

General, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Outgoing Chairman & President

Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA)

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์ปคํ‹ฐ์Šค M. ์Šค์นดํŒŒ๋กœํ‹ฐ
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์œก๊ตฐ ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋Œ€์žฅ
ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ์ด์ž„์ž
์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ(KDVA)

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KDVA and KUSAF Joint Message for โ€œU.S.-ROK Alliance Memorial Week 2025โ€

KDVA and KUSAF Joint Message for โ€œU.S.-ROK Alliance Memorial Week 2025โ€

May 26 โ€“ June 6, 2025

โ€œ2025 ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน ์ถ”๋ชจ์ฃผ๊ฐ„โ€์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จยท์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ๊ณต๋™ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€

2025. 5. 26. โ€“ 6. 6.

This week, between U.S. Memorial Day and ROK Memorial Day, we pause to remember the Americans and Koreans who gave their lives in defense of freedom. Their courage shaped the world we live in today, and their sacrifice binds our nations in shared purpose and deep respect.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ํ˜„์ถฉ์ผ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ํ˜„์ถฉ์ผ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ƒ๋ช…์„ ๋ฐ”์นœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์˜์›…๋“ค์„ ๊ฒฝ๊ฑดํžˆ ์ถ”๋ชจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋ฐ ํฐ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํฌ์ƒ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋‘ ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋™์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์™€ ๊นŠ์€ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์กด์ค‘ ์†์— ๊ตณ๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฐ์†์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

When a Service Member falls, the loss is personal — felt by families, friends, fellow Veterans, and communities. But it is also a loss for every citizen who benefits from their bravery. The freedom and peace we enjoy were built on their devotion to duty and willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice.

ํ•œ ๋ช…์˜ ์žฅ๋ณ‘์ด ์ „์‚ฌํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ ํฌ์ƒ์˜ ์•„ํ””์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์นœ๊ตฌ, ์ „์šฐ, ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ๊นŠ์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ์Šฌํ””์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž์œ ์™€ ํ‰ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ด๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋‚จ์˜ ์ผ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ, ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด์•ผ ํ•  ์Šฌํ””์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ž์œ ์™€ ํ‰ํ™”๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ž„๋ฌด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ—Œ์‹ ๊ณผ, ์ƒ๋ช…์„ ๋ฐ”์น˜๋Š” ํฌ์ƒ์„ ๋งˆ๋‹คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ ์œ„์— ์„ธ์›Œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The ROK-U.S. Alliance was bonded in war, tested for seven and half decades, and stands today as a pillar of regional stability and shared values. For 75 years, American and Korean troops have stood side by side — from the Korean War to decades of combined defense. More than 130,000 ROK and 36,000 U.S. Service Members have been lost in this shared cause.

ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€ ์ „์Ÿ ์†์—์„œ ๋งบ์–ด์กŒ๊ณ , 75 ๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์‹œ๋ จ์„ ๊ฒช์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‹จ๋ จ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์—๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ ์•ˆ๋ณด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ด€์„ ์ง€ํƒฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋‘ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋š ์„œ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 75 ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ์—ฐํ•ฉ ๋ฐฉ์œ„์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ์„œ์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹ธ์›Œ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณต๋™์˜ ๋Œ€์˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด 13๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ตฐ๊ณผ 3๋งŒ6์ฒœ ๋ช…์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ด ๋ชฉ์ˆจ์„ ๋ฐ”์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

To honor them, the Korea-US Alliance Foundation (KUSAF) and the Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) have designated May 26 to June 6, 2025, as โ€œU.S.-ROK Alliance Memorial Week.โ€ We ask Koreans and Americans to take time during this week to participate in remembrance: attend a ceremony, visit a cemetery or memorial, share a story, or learn about those who gave all.

์ด๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” 2025 ๋…„ 5 ์›” 26 ์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 6 ์›” 6 ์ผ๊นŒ์ง€๋ฅผ โ€˜ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน ์ถ”๋ชจ์ฃผ๊ฐ„โ€™์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์ •ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜์„œ ์ถ”๋ชจ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋™์ฐธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถ”๋ชจํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋ฌ˜์ง€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋…๋น„๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์˜์›…๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํฌ์ƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ต์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

We also invite everyone to join in two moments of shared reflection:

– On May 26, U.S. Memorial Day, please pause at 3:00 p.m. EDT to remember American Service Members who died serving in Korea.
– On June 6, ROK Memorial Day, all of Korea will fall silent at 10:00 a.m. to honor those who died defending their homeland.

์•„์šธ๋Ÿฌ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๋‘ ์ฐจ๋ก€์˜ ๊ณต๋™ ์ถ”๋ชจ ๋ฌต๋…์— ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์š”์ฒญ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 5์›” 26์ผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ˜„์ถฉ์ผ์—๋Š” ๋™๋ถ€ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ ์˜คํ›„ 3 ์‹œ์— ์ž ์‹œ ํ•˜๋˜ ์ผ์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ชฉ์ˆจ์„ ๋ฐ”์นœ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์˜์›…๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌต๋…์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 6 ์›” 6 ์ผ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ํ˜„์ถฉ์ผ์—๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์˜ค์ „ 10 ์‹œ์—๋Š” ์˜จ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ด ์ผ์ œํžˆ ์นจ๋ฌต์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ๊ตญ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํฌ์ƒํ•œ ์˜์›…๋“ค์„ ์ถ”๋ชจํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

These moments unite us across time zones and borders, renewing our commitment to remember and to serve. Let us honor the fallen not only with words, but through lives lived in freedom, gratitude, and friendship.

์ด ๋‘ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์€ ์‹œ์ฐจ์™€ ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋‹ค์ง์„ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘, ๊ณ ์ธ๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ž์œ ์™€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ์ • ์†์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ถ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œTogether for the ROK-U.S. Allianceโ€

ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด์š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน!

Curtis M. Scaparrotti General, U.S. Army (Retired) President, KDVA

์ปคํ‹ฐ์Šค ์Šค์นดํŒŒ๋กœํ‹ฐ

์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์œก๊ตฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์žฅ

Leem, Ho Young, General, ROK Army (Retired) President, KUSAF

์ž„ํ˜ธ์˜

๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์œก๊ตฐ๋Œ€์žฅ (์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ)

ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ ํšŒ์žฅ

KUSAF and KDVA Joint Message for Alliance Memorial Week 25.0513_Dual Language

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KDVA Chairman and Vice Chairman Changes

KDVA Chairman and Vice Chairman Changes

May 20, 2025

KDVA ํšŒ์žฅ ๋ฐ ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ต์ฒด

2025๋…„ 5์›” 20์ผ

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The Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) is honored to announce an important leadership transition on June 1, 2025, that marks a new chapter in the organizationโ€™s growth and continued commitment to the ROK-U.S. Alliance.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ(KDVA)๋Š” 2025๋…„ 6์›” 1์ผ๋ถ€๋กœ ์กฐ์ง์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํ—Œ์‹ ์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š”, ์ฃผ์š” ์ง€๋„๋ถ€ ๊ต์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Gen. (Ret.) Curtis Scaparrotti

Outgoing KDVA Chairman & President

์ „์ž„ ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ

์ปคํ‹ฐ์Šค ์Šค์นดํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ (Curtis M. Scaparrotti) ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋Œ€์žฅ

KDVA ์ „์ž„ ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ

 

Gen. (Ret.) Curtis M. Scaparrotti, who has served with distinction as KDVA Chairman and President, will transition from his leadership role and join the KDVA Council of Advisors, continuing his contributions to KDVA in an advisory capacity.

์Šค์นดํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋Œ€์žฅ์€ KDVA ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ง๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ , ํ–ฅํ›„ KDVA ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›ํšŒ์—์„œ ์ž๋ฌธ ์—ญํ• ๋กœ์„œ ์†Œ์ž„์„ ๋‹คํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Robert B. โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams

Incoming KDVA Chairman & President

์‹ ์ž„ ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ

๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ B. โ€œ์—์ด๋ธŒโ€ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค (Robert B. โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams) ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋Œ€์žฅ
KDVA ์‹ ์ž„ ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ

Succeeding Gen. (Ret.) Scaparrotti will be Gen. (Ret.) Robert B. โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams who served as the KDVA Vice Chairman. Gen. Abrams previously served as the Commander of United Nations Command, ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea, and brings decades of leadership experience, deep commitment to the Alliance, and a strong vision for KDVAโ€™s future.

์Šค์นดํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์ „์ž„ ํšŒ์žฅ์˜ ๋’ค๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด KDVA ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ์ง์„ ๋งก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋Œ€์žฅ์ด KDVA ํšŒ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ทจ์ž„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ์€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ์—ฐํ•ฉ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€, ์œ ์—”๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๋™๋งน์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ํ—Œ์‹ , KDVA์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋น„์ „์„ ๋‘๋ฃจ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Bills

Incoming KDVA Vice Chairman

์‹ ์ž„ ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ

๋งˆ์ดํด A. โ€œ๋งˆ์ดํฌโ€ ๋นŒ์Šค (Mike Bills) ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์ค‘์žฅ

KDVA ์‹ ์ž„ ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ

In addition, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Michael A. โ€œMikeโ€ Bills will step into the role of Vice Chairman of KDVA. Gen. Bills is currently a KDVA Board member and previously served as the Commander of the Eighth U.S. Army in Korea. His leadership and operational experience in Korea will further strengthen KDVAโ€™s impact.

๋˜ํ•œ, KDVA ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•ด์˜จ ๋นŒ์Šค ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์ค‘์žฅ์ด KDVA ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ์ง์„ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋นŒ์Šค ์ค‘์žฅ์€ ์ฃผํ•œ ๋ฏธ ์ œ8๊ตฐ ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋นŒ์Šค ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„์—์„œ์˜ ์ž‘์ „ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ KDVA์˜ ํ™œ๋™์— ํฐ ํž˜์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Outgoing KDVA Chairman and President, Gen. Scaparrotti, shared,

โ€œIt has been my great honor to serve KDVA and its vital mission of enhancing the ROK-U.S. Alliance and honoring our Veterans. I have the utmost confidence in Gen. Abrams and Gen. Bills to lead KDVA into its next chapter with vision and purpose. I look forward to continuing to support this noble cause as a KDVA Advisor.โ€

ํ‡ด์ž„ํ•˜๋Š” ์Šค์นดํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ํšŒ์žฅ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ˆ ํšŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œKDVA์™€ ๊ทธ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ด‰์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ์˜๊ด‘์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” KDVA๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ๊ณผ ๋นŒ์Šค ์ค‘์žฅ์ด ์ด ๋น„์ „๊ณผ ๋ชฉ์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  KDVA๋ฅผ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํžˆ ์ด๋Œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ด ๊ณ ๊ท€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ง€์›ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

Incoming KDVA Chairman & President, Gen. (Ret.) Robert Abrams commented,

โ€œIt is a tremendous honor to lead KDVA at this important moment in its growth. The ROK-U.S. Alliance is a model of strength and shared friendships, and I look forward to advancing our mission to honor the Veterans who built and defended it.ย  KDVA has a vital role in uniting the generations of Americans and Koreans who served together. I am deeply committed to ensuring their legacy is remembered and their voices are heard.โ€

์‹ ์ž„ ํšŒ์žฅ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ์˜ ์†Œ๊ฐ์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œKDVA๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ์ ์— ํšŒ์žฅ์ง์„ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ํฐ ์˜๊ด‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์šฐ์ •๊ณผ ์—ฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ฒ”์ ์ธ ๋™๋งน์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์ผœ๋‚ธ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” KDVA์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ์ „์ง„์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. KDVA๋Š” ์„ธ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ž‡๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋ฌถ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์œ ์‚ฐ์ด ๊ธฐ์–ต๋˜๊ณ  ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ „๋‹ฌ๋˜๋„๋ก ๊นŠ์ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

Incoming KDVA Vice Chairman, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Bills stated,

โ€œIโ€™ve proudly supported KDVA for years, and Iโ€™m honored to step into this leadership role to help expand our reach and deepen our impact.ย  The Alliance is more than a military partnership — itโ€™s a bond of trust forged through service and sacrifice. Iโ€™m excited to work with our members to reinforce connections and support for our Veterans.โ€

์‹ ์ž„ ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ ๋นŒ์Šค ์ค‘์žฅ๋„ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฐ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ KDVA๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•ด์™”๋˜ ์ผ์›์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋”์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ์˜๊ด‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์  ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ด‰์‚ฌ์™€ ํฌ์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์Œ“์•„์˜จ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ์œ ๋Œ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ํšŒ์›๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ณต๊ณ ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

KDVA sincerely thanks Gen. Scaparrotti for his steadfast leadership and welcomes Gen. Abrams and Gen. Bills as they assume their new roles. The Association looks forward to building on its durable foundation to expand programs; grow membership; get our 45,000 members and 116,000 social media followers more connected and involved; and deepen support for the ROK-U.S. Alliance and Veterans of both nations.

KDVA๋Š” ์Šค์นดํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ์˜ ๊ตณ๊ฑดํ•œ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์— ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ๊ณผ ๋นŒ์Šค ์ค‘์žฅ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ญํ•  ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. KDVA๋Š” ์ด ๋“ ๋“ ํ•œ ํ† ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ , ํšŒ์› ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, 45,000๋ช…์˜ ํšŒ์›๊ณผ 116,000๋ช…์˜ ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ํŒ”๋กœ์›Œ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ ‘์ ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ , ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน๊ณผ ์–‘๊ตญ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Learn more at kdva.vet and join KDVA for free!

์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ kdva.vet์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ KDVA์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

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KDVA Introduces the second KDVA Campus Club in the United States.

KDVA Introduces the second KDVA Campus Club in the United States.

The Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) is very excited to announce the 1st U.S of 2025. KDVA Campus Club at Millersville University located in Millersville, PA. The KDVA Campus Club (KCC) is led by Club President Ashley Via with support from Mr. David Owen, Faculty Advisor.

The Millersville University KDVA Campus Club is excited to bring together students with common interests to increase awareness and advocacy of the ROK-U.S. Alliance and our Veterans. With the support of KDVA, they will host Meet and Greets, Webinars, Conferences, Korean Cultural Experiences, and more.

Club President, Ashley Via said, โ€œI’m truly excited to see KCC-MU become a space where we can honor the enduring partnership between South Korea and the United States, while building a supportive community of military-affiliated students.”

Ashley Via served in the U.S. Army for five years as a Behavioral Health Specialist, earning the rank of Staff Sergeant before transitioning to civilian life. During her time in service, she was stationed primarily at Fort Sill, OK, where she gained hands-on experience in mental health support and crisis intervention. Now in her first year at Millersville University, Ashley is pursuing a degree in Psychology.

Mr. David Owen, KCC MU Faculty Advisor said, โ€œOnce I learned about KDSAโ€™s mission and its plans to establish campus clubs across the U.S. to promote that mission, I was genuinely excited. Having served in the U.S. Air Force on the Korean Peninsula at Osan Air Base, I deeply understand the importance of the U.S.-South Korean alliance. The newly established KCC-MU not only provides us with an opportunity to educate local communities and create a presence on campus, but it also allows me to bring together many aspects of my life, namely my military service, life experiences in Asia, and teachingโ€”in meaningful ways that benefit others. I am truly excited about what the future holds for KCC-MU and KDSA.โ€

Dr. David A. Owen holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics and Asian Studies from Southern Illinois University. He is currently an Associate Professor of International Politics at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, a position he has held since 2013. Before joining Millersville University, Dr. Owen spent approximately 17 years living in East and Southeast Asia. His career began in the U.S. Air Force, where he served for about 9 years, primarily on the Korean Peninsula and in mainland Japan.

Dr. Owen has been teaching since 1999, starting with faculty appointments at esteemed universities in East and Southeast Asia. He has published research on political attitudes and behavior across multiple countries, including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, North Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. His work has appeared in respected scholarly journals such as the Journal of Communist and Post-Communist Studies, the Journal of Chinese Political Science, and Asian Politics and Policy, among others. His experience in the region began with his assignment at Osan Air Base, South Korea.


Did you know that anyone can start a KDVA Campus Club at any American or Korean college/university? KDVA will cover the cost of ALL activities. If interested, please connect with Ms. Ambrie Jones (KCC Coordinator) ambrie.kdva@gmail.com, register the KDVA Campus Club with your institution, and plan and run your activities about Korea, the ROK-U.S. Alliance, and Veterans. Itโ€™s that simple!

Here is information about the KDVA Campus Clubs: https://kdva.vet/campus/.

KDVA is a nonpolitical, nonprofit organization registered in Virginia with operations in the United States and South Korea.

Ambrie Jones

KDVA Campus Club Coordinator


KDVA is very excited to announce the second KDVA Campus Club in the United States. The campus club is located at the Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania.

Our Millersville University KDVA Campus Club will launch its first Meet & Greet on Monday, April 21, 2025.

What: Millersville University KDVA Campus Club Launch Meet & Greet
When: April 21st from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Where: Ford Atrium in Mccomsey Hall on Millersville University’s Campus
43 East Frederick St. Millersville, PA 17551

The event is free! Please register by April 20 to ensure we can accommodate all attendees.

Free parking in Parking Area 1 or Parking Area 2.

REGISTER

 


 

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KDVA ROK-U.S. Alliance Journal – 2025 1st Quarter

2025 1st Quarter Edition

Featuring stories and articles by KDVA members and supporters of the ROK-U.S. Alliance.

 

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