The Light of Immortality -- three large light pillars created by 55 lights -- illuminates the sky over the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul's Yongsan Ward on March 21, 2023. The light is lit up on a pilot basis before the Patriots and Veterans Affairs Ministry holds a memorial lighting event to pay tribute to 55 troops who died in three major clashes with North Korea in the West Sea, comprising an inter-Korean naval skirmish in 2002, North Korea's torpedo attack on the corvette Cheonan in 2010 and its shelling of the border island of Yeonpyeong in the same year. The three-day event, which will start the next day, is timed with the commemoration day for the fallen soldiers, known as the West Sea Defense Day, which falls on March 24 this year. Since 2016, the government has designated the fourth Friday of March as the commemoration day for them. (Yonhap)
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