I've become a bit of a Korean history buff lately and so our walk out from Donggang Village was particularly interesting to me. The road actually follows the path of a raid by South Korean forces on a February morning in 1952 on four villages, killing about 700 villagers as part of a scorched earth policy against the North Koreans who had taken refuge in the hills. Not sure they killed any communists, but there's now a huge memorial commemorating the lives of the dead here, including gravestones for each person counted.
