Imjingak
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Around midday on September 18, 2024, I stopped at Imjingak, a park in Paju near the border with North Korea. Its fence is covered in colorful ribbons that visitors tie on with messages of hope for peace and reunification, and the rusted steam locomotive from Jangdan Station stands nearby. The park has memorials, too: two bronze Statues of Peace, honoring the women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military before and during World War II, and a monument carved with the lyrics of “Lost 30 Years,” a 1983 song about families separated by the Korean War.
Photos from Imjingak
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The wooden walkway of the Freedom Bridge.
Two Statues of Peace beside a stretch of railway track.
The Song of Longing for Home monument, carved with the lyrics of “Lost 30 Years.”