By Kim Hyun
SUNCHANG, South Korea, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- Cows plowing rice farms, children bathing in a nearby stream and elderly men playing chess on a lazy afternoon -- this was life in Nogeun-ri, Yeongdong County, central South Korea, before a nightmarish event occurred in July, 1950.
The incident came without warning on the 31st day of the Korean War. The sky split open as U.S. warplanes appeared and strafed hundreds of villagers walking along a railroad track. They were leaving their homes under a directive from retreating U.S. soldiers in the advance of North Korean communists.
Survivors, cornered under a railroad bridge at Nogeun-ri, were indiscriminately machine-gunned. Out of about 500 villagers, only 25 remained, the witness and families of the victims say.
Half a century later, the atrocity is being made into a film. An independent South Korean production company finished shooting the movie, tentatively titled "Small Pond", this week, with its release set for June ...
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