UNMCK - UNITED NATIONS MEMORIAL CEMETERY IN KOREA

Hello:) I'm a junior student of foreign language high school in South Korea. As you may well know, South Korea has been highly influenced by COVID-19 recently. Thanks to the immediate and thorough action, it's getting better, but still there are tens of cases newly discovered everyday along with many casualties. At first, it seemed that East Asian countries are only ones attacked by COVID-19. However, USA schools close till summer, UK gave up on preventing corona virus and Italy is currently making more casualties than China as announced. Since I know that there are families of Korean War Veterans in COVID-attacked countries, I'm really concerned if you are okay. If you need any help, please let me know and I'll try my best to solve your problem. (I’m not sure whether I am ‘qualified’ to say this as a person living in ‘Korea’ but just in case...XD) Just to let you know some happenings going over in Korea, my new junior life should have started in February 23rd, but because of this terrible corona virus, I cannot meet my friends, which is the very reason of my loneliness these days. About 4 to 5 days ago, government again announced the closing of school till April 6th which was the fourth delay, and it made me extremely hopeless. Moreover, even if I go to school, I have to wear masks during classes and I guess that would block every student from breathing, leading to deoxygenation in their blood, hardships in studying and getting bad scores on the test. I understand why the government made this kind of decision, but do I in the world have to live like that? We are doing something weird called ‘social distancing’ in order to prevent the spread of corona virus and there are tons of fun memes making fun of that. Those corona related memes are the things that make me live one more day. If you are tired of social distancing yourself or avoiding going out or something, I highly recommend you to look for some fun stuffs and overcome this worldwide emergency, lying in your bed, looking at your phone and laughing. Since I fully understand the reason of all these actions, I am trying my best in order to avoid meeting people and going out. If we continue to wear masks everyday and be careful, I believe that this terrifying disasters will end someday, hopefully in 2020. Due to corona virus, I’m literally dilly-dallying. This unexpected free time gives me opportunity to think about my surroundings though. Looking at the news about how corona virus changed the 2020 life style of the earthians, I kind of got to realize how weak humans are, and at the same time, how strong humans are. It may sound a bit awkward (‘a lot’ awkward actually), but I guess some will know what I’m saying. Because of the floating protein, which is neither living thing nor nonliving thing, people are suffering a lot and the world is in danger. Despite this emergency, however, humans are seeking the way out and conceiving the solutions, medicine or whatever that can contribute to saving the world. This movements give me strong, complexed feeling that I cannot describe, but I am glad to see the limit and potent of human at the same time. I really hope this disastrous COVID-19 situation to be done ASAP and all these concerns go away. Please stay healthy. You are a family of the greatest man in the world. He really helped Korea a lot and had it not been for him, I could not be writing this letter. Thanks to all Korean War Veterans, and best wishes for your good health!