This festival originated to commemorate the massacre of 719 unarmed villagers by the South Korean Army in 1951. For years the massacre was covered up and denied by the South Korean Government and victims were falsely slandered as being communist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochang_massacre Photo copies of a rescued Luna moth are installed on the waters edge under the main bridge in Geochang. I was reminded of when, as children we instinctively rescued drowning ladybird beetles. |