Student Volunteer Forces

The student volunteer troops were demobilized when South Korean and United Nations forces secured the 38th parallel in March 1951, when most of them returned to their education and some enlisted in the ROK Army.

[3] Some of them bore rifles and ammunition with their uniforms as they entered the South Korean army unit, which had been guarding the Han River from June 29, 1950, in order to participate in the battle.

[4] However, the Ministry of National Defense has made most of the student soldiers responsible for the rear-area missions, including refugee relief, bulletin reports[clarification needed] and street propaganda.

[8] The student soldiers made great achievements in the Nakdong River Defense Line, which was considered as the last fortress.

[11] At the beginning of August, the newly formed 25th of June cohort, in Daegu also filled most of the troop vacancies with student soldiers.

[13] The 2nd, 3rd and 5th battalions were deployed to the Taebaek mountain range from early October and cleared the enemy who fled.

As the army crossed the 38th parallel, the academics of the restoration area also supported the operation of the armed forces through various organizations themselves.

They were grouped together with a 1.4 retreat[clarification needed] and continued in the name of the school militia, and many of them enlisted as regular army troops, numbering about 4,000.

President Syngman Rhee announced that the young students who were the future of the nation should return to the academy urgently to continue their studies.

They fought for an extended period of time with the North Korean Army, backed up by five armoured vehicles.

[27] In the exhibition room, there are about 200 artifacts such as diaries, photographs, and weapons used by the municipal police officers at the time, worn clothes.

In this tower, the remains of 48 unknown soldiers, who were killed in Pohang district during the Korean War were buried in a hemispherical grave.

In April 1968, the body of a representative unnamed warrior was converted into a crypt and the tower was relocated to its present location.

Forty-eight unnamed volunteers were stationed at the back of the tower, and the altar was moved to this place, marked as the "Grave of the Student Soldier."