Bodies of Some 100,000 Korean War Dead Still Missing

Another aspect of Korean history that, I believe, is still very meaningful to Koreans today is the Korean War.

A few months ago, I was surprised when I stumbled across an article reporting that the government of South Korea is planning to excavate the remains of 1,300 soldiers who died in the Korean war.  I assume that they will be relocated to a war cemetery.  The article also reported that, since the year 2000, the remains of 5,500 Korean war casualties have been discovered.  However, after a quick internet search, I discovered another article, this one published in mid 2009, stating that the remains of over 130,000 soldiers are still missing.

I guess that, during the war, there simply was no time to properly take care of the remains of the casualties, and so they were simply buried where they lay at different locations in the country.  And so now, about 60 years later, the government is trying to find the remains of these fallen soldiers and identify them. 

But what a brutal thing it must have been for these people's families, to have to carry on for all these years not knowing where their loved ones rest!