Remembering and Forgetting the Korean War in the Republic of Korea

The Korean War had no official ending and has continued in a form of Cold since 1953, the year cease-fire agreement was signed, yet, during past five decades, it appears to have faded from South memory. Anti-communism became national ideology post-war Korea. For country that endeavoring establish identity differs communist North Korea, establishment an anti-communist state inevitable. However, collapse Communist Bloc humanitarian crisis Korea 1990s led attitudinal changes public toward forgetting remembering conjunction with memory left people ambivalent Koreans. This paper explores social encounters between Koreans late 2000s Seoul illustrate uneasy interactions stem education as well subsequent erasure about part culture.
 
 Keywords: history, memory, migration, refugees