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Jan 13, 2021 HAEAN, South Korea – Along the border with North Korea is a town where the sad legacy of war is perhaps best understood by looking at the crops in the field. Standing on a wind-swept plot on a hillside, Han Gi-taek, 69, peered over the land and recalled the hard labor, cold nights and stray land mines that made it difficult for his family to cultivate the ground beneath his feet. First they did it with their bare hands and shovels, he said. In more recent years, it has been done using tractors, with the piles of rocks that ring the field bearing witness to the family’s decades of labor. ....
The Korean War Emptied the Town. Those Who Rebuilt It May Now Be Rewarded Hundreds of destitute families moved to a town bordering North Korea after the war. Six decades later, their dream of owning the land they helped cultivate may finally come true. Han Gi-taek on farmland in Haean, South Korea, in December. His family was among the first group of people to be relocated to the border territory after the war.Credit.Jean Chung for The New York Times Published Jan. 12, 2021Updated Jan. 15, 2021 HAEAN, South Korea Along the border with North Korea is a town where the sad legacy of war is perhaps best understood by looking at the crops in the field. ....