Korean flag to be returned on loan basis (Baltimore Sun)

[GreatAmerican]

<p><a href=“http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-md.ar.flag11oct11,0,5689213.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout[/url]”>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-md.ar.flag11oct11,0,5689213.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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The Naval Academy has agreed to temporarily return a Korean flag captured by Marines in an obscure 1871 battle, in response to requests from a South Korean cultural delegation that visited Annapolis this year.</p>

<p>“It will mean a great deal to Koreans when they see this flag come back,” Thomas Duvernay, a professor of English and Korean history at Handong Global University in Pohang, South Korea, said in a telephone interview. “This flag is like Old Glory or the Liberty Bell.”</p>

<p>The giant banner is scheduled to reach Seoul on Oct. 19, he said, and three days later it will be unveiled at a news conference before being displayed in the city’s National Palace Museum…

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[GreatAmerican]

<p><a href=“http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/navy_korea_flag_071010w/[/url]”>http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/navy_korea_flag_071010w/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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A Korean battle flag captured by a contingent of sailors and Marines more than a century ago will be returned to the Korean peninsula amid calls that North Korean officials return the favor by relinquishing a Navy ship captured during the Cold War.</p>

<p>The Navy recently negotiated a two-year lease with South Korea’s Cultural Heritage Administration that will allow the more than 13-by-13-foot flag of Gen. Uh Je-yeon to be returned home without violating an 1814 federal law requiring the Navy to hold onto captured battle flags and an 1849 executive order requiring that those flags be kept at the Naval Academy…

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<p>Don’t hold your breath on the return of the USS Pueblo. :eek:</p>

[GreatAmerican]

<p>Was captured in 1871, stored at Naval Academy</p>

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A Korean flag captured by Marines more than a century ago will be returning home soon, as the Naval Academy museum plans to lend the icon to a museum in South Korea.</p>

<p>The United States captured the 14½-by-14½-foot yellow flag in 1871 when Marines and Navy Blue Jackets overran the Korean fortress on Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, in an attempt to open Korea to American trade…

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