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International Business Times
International Business Times
World
Claire LEE

Life On The Frontline: Fear, Camaraderie On S. Korean Border Island

South Korean marines disembark from a passenger ferry at Yeonpyeong Island (Credit: AFP)

When a North Korean artillery shell slammed into his house and burned it to the ground in 2010, Jung Chang-kuan thought that war had broken out again.

That attack was a North Korean artillery barrage on Jung's home, the remote South Korean border island of Yeongpeong, which killed four people in the first such incident since the 1950-53 Korean War.

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