The Light of Immortality -- three large light pillars created by 55 lights -- illuminates the sky over the national cemetery in Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, on March 23, 2022, as South Korea 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 event came ahead of the commemoration day for the fallen soldiers, known as the West Sea Defense Day, that will fall on March 25 this year. Since 2016, the government has designated the fourth Friday of March as the commemoration day for them. (Yonhap)
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