Members of the Tongjin Dure Nori Affiliation maintain a memorial ritual for the relocation of the stays of a bull that drifted south from North Korea close to Aegibong hill in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, Nov. 27. Courtesy of the Tongjin Dure Nori Affiliation
A bull that drifted south from North Korea throughout a significant flood in 1996 and have become a logo of inter-Korean peace has been laid to relaxation on a border hill overlooking its homeland almost 20 years after its loss of life.
The animal’s stays had been moved to an exhibition corridor in Aegibong Peace Ecopark on Aegibong hill, simply 1.4 kilometers from North Korea’s border county of Kaepung, on Saturday, in accordance with the Gimpo Cultural Basis.
Dubbed the “bull of peace,” South Korean authorities first found the animal on the uninhabited island of Yudo, off the western metropolis of Gimpo, in July 1996 after it drifted from the North and survived a lethal flood that swept via central elements of the Korean Peninsula.
Because of the island’s location inside impartial waters between the Koreas, South Korean Marines had been deployed to rescue it in January the subsequent 12 months after authorization by the U.N. Command overseeing the armistice of the 1950-53 Korean Conflict.
The bull had a damaged ankle after stepping on a mine amongst these strewn throughout the closely fortified border however later recovered after therapy.
In 1998, it was married off to a cow from the southern island of Jeju in a marriage ceremony, and the couple went on to have seven offspring earlier than the bull died of pure causes in 2006 on the presumed age of 16.
This file picture reveals a bull rescued by South Korean Marines from an uninhabited island off Gimpo, Jan. 17, 1997. Yonhap
After its loss of life, the bull’s descendants over eight generations have been raised in farms throughout South Korea, together with Jeju and the western metropolis of Incheon.
The bull’s stays had been saved in a tradition middle in Gimpo earlier than their relocation to the border hill, the place fierce combating passed off in the course of the Korean Conflict.
The island the place the animal was found may be seen from the exhibition corridor containing the stays, which is now open to the general public.
Forward of the relocation, a memorial ritual additionally passed off close to Aegibong on Thursday, wishing for peace on the peninsula.
“Though the bull of peace, thought of a logo of the ache of division in addition to peace, didn’t see the unification (of the Koreas), I hope it turns into a giant star above Aegibong and a messenger of peace,” Kang Kyung-ku, a former mayor of Gimpo, stated.
