South Korean students thank U.K. for veterans’ scholarship

Students from a school in South Korea have visited the U.K. Embassy to deliver a poster of thanks dedicated to British veterans of the Korean War.
Three students, HiAn Sang-gyeon, Beak So-ra and Kwon Hae-rim, from Jeokseong Composite High School in Paju traveled to Seoul with their teachers to thank British Ambassador Scott Wightman for U.K. soldiers’ service during the 1951-53 war and for scholarships they have donated to Korean students ever since. The fund is supported by British companies doing business in Korea.
Kwon said: “We are so grateful that we want to show the British veterans our appreciation by studying very hard.”
Some 87,000 British servicemen fought in the Korean War, with 1,109 losing their lives. Eight-hundred of them are buried in the U.N. Memorial Cemetery in Busan.