[1] The 7th Infantry Regiment was originally activated on February 7, 1946, at Chongju and was first commanded by 2nd Lt. Min Ki Shik.

[3] It also participated in the general 6th Division drive northwards during the UN offensive of 1950, until it reached Huichon, nearly sixteen miles north of Kujang-dong, on the night of October 23, 1950.

Passing through Onjong during the night of the twenty-fourth, the regiment, turned north and advanced toward Chosan, fifty miles away on the Yalu River.

A reinforced reconnaissance platoon from the regiment entered Chosan the next morning and found the North Koreans retreating across the Yalu into China over a narrow floating footbridge.

Although it was able, with heavy air support, to fend off the enemy in daylight, the regiment was defeated and dispersed during the night.