War is the most disastrous event that can occur in a nation.

However, a civil war has an even more devastating effect on the nation. On 27 July 1953, the fighting in the tragic Korean War finally stopped as the armistice was signed. The war left Korea in ruins and caused many casualties. The war claimed the lives of more than 480,000 soldiers from the ROK and UNC as well as those of 1.5 to 2 million communist soldiers from North Korea and China. More importantly, it claimed the lives of more than 4.5 million civilians. The number of sacrificed civilians was about 15% of Korea's existing combined population. Besides the loss of lives, the war orphaned about 3.7 million children and over 10 million families became permanently separated.

This tragedy named war cannot be described in words.