Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre



"I don't know why my fellow countrymen from the past knew that they just did the Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacres back then on 12 February 1968, but I don't like that sound of that when Tongyeong is being massacred by the ARVN's 1st Tiger Ranger Division while I'm attending a special ceremony here in Walkerville. If Arnold's concern about this, he'll speak about it."

--Su Ji-Hoon, How I Can Help Make the World Great (chapter)

The Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre (Korean: 퐁니·퐁넛 양민학살 사건, Vietnamese: Thảm sát Phong Nhất và Phong Nhị) was a massacre reported to have been conducted by the 2nd Marine Division of the South Korean Marine Corps on 12 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in the villages of Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất, Điện Bàn District of Quảng Nam Province in South Vietnam. The South Korean forces had been newly transferred from the area, in the wake of the Tet Offensive, with the village located in a densely populated region in and around Da Nang. Transferring Korean Marines to the populated Da Nang sector from a less populated sector was unpopular with ARVN and US Commanders and setting back pacification and relation-building efforts, due to the behaviour of Korean forces.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, it would be mentioned in during World War III when the Korean civic groups made an apologies to Vietnamese people even though it caused the 1st Tiger Ranger Division of Vietnamese Rangers massacred South Korean people in Tongyeong for Vietnam War revenge of Ducangers.