Recently, the friendly gesture between North ... South Korea can be traced all the way back to the Korean War (1950 –1953), which resulted the division of the Korean peninsula along the 38th ...

In August 1945, at the end of World War II, Russia and the United States divided the Korean peninsula at the 38th parallel ... After North Korea invaded the south on June 25, 1950, U.N. forces ...

So the division at 38th parallel wasn't necessarily a hard border. People were quite free to cross it. In fact, 1.6 million people did cross from North to South Korea at this time. A lot of them ...