The remains of civilians who were killed by U.S. bombing during the Korean War in Danyang, North Chungcheong Province will be collected and transferred to a state memorial facility.

According to Danyang county officials on Saturday, local authorities have decided to excavate the remains and earmarked 125 million won for the project in the county's extra budget.

The military will carry out the excavation and the recovered remains will be enshrined at a peace park in Daejeon which is currently being built as a memorial facility for civilian casualties of the Korean War.

On January 20, 1951, some 360 local residents of Danyang and war refugees taking shelter inside Gokgye Cave were killed by U.S. bombing and machine gun fire.

After the bombing, surviving families gathered the bodies of their loved ones but the remains of those who were not from the area were left behind and later recovered by local officials. 

Those remains made it to the current burial site in the late 1970s. 

Danyang officials now want to relocate them to a proper memorial facility. About one hundred sets of remains are believed to be buried there.