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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War. Among the things that have yet to be revealed is the massacre of civilians at the time, and we have prepared a series of reports on this. 

Although 70 years have passed and some of the damage has been confirmed, reporter Bae Jeong-hoon reports first, how many civilians were slaughtered at the time, and even the scale was not fully understood.

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A ship leaves Masan Port, Gyeongnam. 

It's an hour-long road to Hoe. 

Named for the cat's cry at night, there were over 700 civilians in the area immediately following the Korean War. 

In June, the ship's memorial service will be held, the 13th this year. 

Most of the civilians killed here are victims of the National Press Federation. 

[Park Jae-hong/Changwon Press Federation Victims' families: I wanted to call them inside, but I couldn't speak out. I haven't heard the voice of my father yet. This was my first time. I was called my father for the first time in 70 years.] The

Press Federation is an organization created by the South Korean government in April 1949 to cultivate experienced leftists. 

But when the war broke out, the list of press federations turned into a killing department. 

Military and police massacre them, saying that a press federation of up to 300,000 could be on the side of North Korea.

In 2005, more than 50 years later, the Committee on Reconciliation was formed to reveal the reality of the massacre of civilians, including the case of the press federation.

Ten thousand bereaved families asked for truth, and over four years of the committee's activity, half were acknowledged for the damage. 

[Gimdongchun announced past organized the Committee for the teaching / Truth and Reconciliation (2009): did the Federation wanted to have not very systematically organized micheo arrested also the search of genocide -

but know who, why, and how he died a short active period of fault, and Even the basic facts like who ordered it were not revealed.

This year, which marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, the second year of the Year of Reconciliation and Reconciliation Committee will be launched in 10 years after the continued demand for the investigation of the truth that has not come out of the world.

[Kim Dong-chun / Dean of NGO Graduate School of Success Association: (in the case of the Press Federation) There has been no case in which the Korean government has slaughtered so many of its people since Dangun. It's the biggest tragedy since Dangun.]

(Video coverage: Kim Yong-woo, Video editing: Hwan-hee Won, CG: Jae-young Choi, VJ: Young-

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