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Kim Hyo-gun, a cadet in the Korean army’s Reserve Officers Training Corps, cleans the gravestone of a soldier killed in the Korean War at the national cemetery in Seoul on Thursday, one day before the 71st anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. He was volunteering with friends involved in an academic group focusing on North Korea and unification. Kim, whose great-grandfather died in the Korean War, said he plans to visit his great-grandfather’s grave at the cemetery after his volunteer work is done.

College students involved in a group focusing on North Korea and unification clean gravestones of soldiers killed in the Korean War at the national cemetery in Seoul on Thursday. (Kim Hye-yun/The Hankyoreh)

A magpie guards graves of soldiers killed in the Korean War at the national cemetery in Seoul on Thursday. (Kim Hye-yun/The Hankyoreh)

By Kim Hye-yun, staff photographer

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