The United Nations Memorial Cemetery is located in Daeyon 4 Dong, Namgu, Pusan. Here lie buried the heroic dead of many nations who gave their lives in the cause of freedom and world peace.

The cemetery, comprising 14.39 hectares (about 45,000 pyong), was established by the United Nations Command in January 1951 when interments were begun and remains were transferred from six other cemeteries located at Kaesong, Inchon, Taejon, Taegu, Miryang and Masan. It was dedicated in April 1951.

In the cemetery, today lie the remains of 2,300 men from Australia(281), Canada(378), France(44), the Netherlands(117), New Zealand(34), South Africa(11), Turkey(462), the United Kingdom(885), Norway(1), the United States(36) and Republic of Korea(36) as well as of unknown allied soldiers(4) and non belligerents(11).

During the period 1951~1954, remains of about 11,000 men of the United Nations Command forces were gathered here. After that, most of the remains of the soldiers from Belgium, Colombia, Ethiopia, Greece, India, the Philippines, Thailand and United States, and some of the remains of the soldiers from France and Norway were repatriated to their home countries.