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Korean War Museum serves as reminder of 'forgotten war'

At the Korean War Museum in Seoul, Chung Kwon Park leads mostly American tourists through the history of the Korea War.

"War broke out in June 1950," Park describes. It's a history he says many Americans and even younger South Koreans have forgotten.

"Most the Americans I have met, have a very small idea of the Korean War, most of the post-war generation here thought 'that happened, that's it,' you could say the Korean War had been the forgotten war," Park explained.

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