KDVA and KUSAF Message
75th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Korean War
June 2025
ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ฐ 75 ์ฃผ๋
์ ์ฆ์ํ ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ ๊ณต๋๋ฉ์์ง 2025 ๋
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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, ๋ถํ๊ตฐ์ด 38 ์ ์ ๋์ด ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ ๋ถ๋ฒ ์นจ๋ตํ๋ฉด์ ํ๊ตญ์ ์์ด ๋ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์นจ๋ต์ ์๋ฐฑ๋ง ๋ช ์ ๋ชฉ์จ์ ์์๊ฐ๊ณ , ํ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ญ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์์ํ ๋คํ๋ ์ฐธํนํ ์ ์์ ์๋ง์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
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.
ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ๋น์, 180 ๋ง ๋ช ์ด ๋๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๊ณผ 250 ๋ง ๋ช ์ด ๋๋ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ด ์์ ์ํธ์ ์ฌ๋ช ์ ํ์ ํ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ 3๋ง 6์ฒ์ฌ ๋ช ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ฅ๋ณ๊ณผ 13๋ง 7์ฒ์ฌ ๋ช ์ ํ๊ตญ๊ตฐ ์ฅ๋ณ์ด ๊ณ ๊ทํ ์๋ช ์ ๋ฐ์ณค์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์๋ง์ ์ด๋ค์ด ์ ์์ ์ ์ฒด์ ยท์ ์ ์ ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ์๊ณ ๊ทํํ์์ต๋๋ค.
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 ์์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ ์ผ์ ๋ง์, ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ๋ ํจ๊ป ํ์ ๋ชจ์, ์ด ์ฉ๊ฐํ ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ๋ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ ์ฉ๊ธฐ์ ํฌ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณ ๊ทํ ์ ์ ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ฑดํ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
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.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ถ์ฐ ๊ต๋๋ณด, ์ธ์ฒ์๋ฅ์์ , ์ฅ์งํธ ์ ํฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋จ์ฅ์ ๋ฅ์ ๋ฑ์ง์์ ๋ฒ์ด์ง ์น์ดํ ์ ํฌ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ์ตํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ , ์ธ๋ด๋ก ๊ฒฌ๋๋ธ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ ์ญ๊ณ ํ ํฌ์๋ ํจ๊ป ๊ธฐ์ตํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋ฐ๋์์ ์ง์ผ๋ธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋๋ ์๋ ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ ๊ทผ๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ ์์ ์ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํํธ๋์ญ์ด๋ผ๋ ์์ํ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ์์ง ์์ต๋๋ค.
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, ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ ์ธ๊ณ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด๊ณ ์ง์์ ์ธ ๊ตฐ์ฌ์ ยท์ธ๊ต์ ๋๋งน์ผ๋ก ์๋ฆฌ๋งค๊นํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ํน๋ณํ ์ ๋๋ ํจ๊ป ์ธ์ด ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ๋ค์ ๋ํ ๋ถ๋ฉธ์ ์ฐฌ์ฌ์ด์, ์ง์ญ ์๋ณด์ ๊ณต๋ ๋ฒ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ณํจ์๋ ์ฐ์ ์ ํฅํ ๊ตณ๊ฑดํ ํ์ ์ ์์ง์ ๋๋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:
์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ์ ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ์ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ฐ 75 ์ฃผ๋ ์ ๋ง์, ๋ค์ํ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ๊ณผ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ์ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ๋จ๊ธด ๊ณ ๊ทํ ์ ์ฐ์ ์ถฉ์คํ ๊ณ์นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- 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 Chapterโs Education Seminars with U.S. Forces Korea and Meet & Greets at KDVAโs six U.S. chapter locations.
- ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ ์ถ๋ชจ ๋ฐ ์์ฐ: ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ ๊ด๊ณผ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ ๊ธฐ๋ ๋น์์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ์ถ๋ชจ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ, ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์งํํ๋ ๊ต์ก ์ธ๋ฏธ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด 6 ๊ฐ ์ฑํฐ์์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ง๋จ ๋ฐ ๊ต๋ฅ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ๋ค์ ์ญ๊ณ ํ ํฌ์๊ณผ ํ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ตํ๊ณ ์์ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- 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.
- ํ์ ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ๊ณต์ : ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ์ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ ์๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ค์ํ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ํ ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ ๋ด์ค๋ ํฐ์ ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ ํน๋ณ ์ ๋ ๋ฑ์ ์ฝํ ์ธ ๊ฐ ํ์ฉ๋๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์๋ฃ๋ ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ ํํ์ด์ง์ ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ ๋์งํธ ๋์๊ด์ ํตํด ์ด๋ํ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- 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.
- ์ธ๋๋ฅผ ์๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ: ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ ์บ ํผ์ค ํด๋ฝ, ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ U-SPECK ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ, ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ์ ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ์ ์ธํด์ญ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ, ์คยท๊ณ ๋ฑํ์์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ํ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ์์ธ์ด ์ปจํ ์คํธ ๋ฑ์ ์ธ๋ ๊ฐ ๋ฉํ ๋ง์ ํตํด ์ฒญ๋ ๋ค์๊ฒ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ๊ณ , ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ๋ค์ ์ ์ ๊ณผ ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋ค์ ์ธ๋์ ์ ํ๋ ์์คํ ๊ฐ๊ต ์ญํ ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- 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 ๊ฐํ: ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ ๋ํ, ์ฑํฌํฑํฌ ํํธ๋์ญ, ๊ณ ์ ์ง๋์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ๊ต๋ฅ๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ ๋ํ ๋์ค์ ์ธ์๊ณผ ์ดํด๋ฅผ ์ฆ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
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 nationโs economic development and democratic progress. Even in times of peace, 103 lives have been lost due to North Koreaโs 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.
์ด๋ฌํ์ ์๊ณผ์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ๋ค์ํฌ์์๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก์ด์ด์ ธ์จํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์์ง๋70 ์ฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ฝ330 ๋ง๋ช ์ ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ด๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์์ฃผ๋ฌธํ๋ฉฐ์ ์์์ต์ ํ๊ณ , ํ๊ตญ์๊ฒฝ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ณผ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์์ ์ฐฉ์์ํด ํ์ ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ๋์์๋๋ถํ์์ง์์ ์ธ์ ๋ํ์๋ก์ธํด103๋ช ์์์คํ์๋ช ์ด ํฌ์๋์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ฏธ์๊ตญ์๋ฒ ํธ๋จ, ์ํ๊ฐ๋์คํ, ์ด๋ผํฌ๋ฑ์ง์์๋ํจ๊ปํผ๋ฅผํ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ์ธ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ฒ๋ผํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์๊ณต๋์ํฌ์๊ณผํ์ ์๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก์ค๋๋ ๊น์ง๊ตณ๊ฑดํ์ด์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
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.
์ด์ญ์ฌ์ ์ธ์ด์ ํ๋ฅผ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ๊ณผ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ๋์ฐธ์ ์ฉ์ฌ๋ฅผ๊ธฐ์ตํ๊ณ ์ง์ํ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ ๋ ์ธ ๋ ์ ๊ฒ ํ ๊ตญ ์ ์ ์ ์ ๋ฏธ ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ , ์ ๊ตญ ๊ฐ ์ ๋ ๊ฐ ์ ๋ ์ฑ ๊ฐ ํ ํ ๊ธฐ ์ ํ ๊ณต ๋ ์ ๋
ธ ๋ ฅ ์ ๋ค์๊ธํ์ธํฉ๋๋ค. ํ๋ฏธ์๊ตญ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ”์์ ๋๊ฒฐ์ฝ๊ณต์ง๊ฐ์๋๋ค.”๋ผ๋์ญ๊ณ ํ๊ตํ์ ๋์๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์๊ตณ๊ฑดํํ๊ณ ์์ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ์ํธํ๋ ค๋์์ง๋ฅผ๋ค์ง๋๋ป๊น์๋ ์ด๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํํํ์ด์ง๋ฅผ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ์
์์ด๊ณ ๊ทํ์ฌ์ ์ํจ๊ปํด์ฃผ์๊ธฐ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
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์์ธ์ ๋ ๋ฌด๋ฃ์
๋๋ค!)
“Together for the ROK-U.S. Alliance” ํจ๊ปํด์ ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน!
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Robert B. โAbeโ Abrams General, U.S. Army (Retired) President, KDVA ๋ก๋ฒํธ B. โ์์ด๋ธโ ์์ด๋ธ๋ผ์ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ก๊ตฐ ๋์ฅ (์๋น์ญ) ์ฃผํ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ ์ฐํ ํ์ฅ |
Leem, Ho Young General, ROK Army (Retired) President, KUSAF ์ํธ์ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ก๊ตฐ๋์ฅ (์๋น์ญ) ํ๋ฏธ๋๋งน์ฌ๋จ ํ์ฅ |
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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.
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.
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. Itโs that simple!

