From chocolates to chips to nuclear warheads

A war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges home with her brother on her back at Haengju, Korea in 1951. – Major R.V. Spencer/Creative Commons

THIS weekend in South Korea, we’ll again recall the beginning of the Korean War. For me, it is also the start of my memories.

Not yet three years old, I was too young to fully grasp the magnitude of the conflict and contextualise my memories. So, the upheaval that began on June 25, 1950, still remains a disjointed sequence of scenes.