Bình Hòa massacre

{{More citations needed|date=May 2015}}{{Expand Korean|date=May 2021|topic=hist}}{{Infobox civilian attack

|title=Binh Hoa Massacre

|image=Location of Quang Ngai within Vietnam.png

|caption=Quảng Ngãi Province

|location=Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam

|target=Bình Hòa villagers

|date= {{start date and age|1966|12|6}}

|time=

|timezone=

|type=Massacre

|fatalities=422–430{{cite web|url=http://www.quangngai.gov.vn/quangngai/tiengviet/chuyennganh/sovhtt/1341721_2903/ |title=Sở văn hóa thông tin tỉnh Quảng Ngãi |publisher=Quảng Ngãi government |access-date=2011-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430045002/http://www.quangngai.gov.vn/quangngai/tiengviet/chuyennganh/sovhtt/1341721_2903/ |archive-date=April 30, 2011 }}

|perps= South Korean forces

}}

File:Memorial of Binh Hoa massacre.jpg

{{Campaignbox Vietnam War massacres}}

The Bình Hòa Massacre, ({{langx|vi|thảm sát Bình Hoà}}, {{langx|ko|빈호아 학살}}) was a massacre purportedly conducted by South Korean forces between December 3 and December 6, 1966, of 430 unarmed civilians in Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province in South Vietnam.{{cite news|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQtgo4hKsM&feature=feedf|title = On War extra - Vietnam's massacre survivors|newspaper = Al Jazeera|date = 2009-01-04|access-date = 2011-07-09|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150701175124/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQtgo4hKsM&feature=feedf|archive-date = 2015-07-01|url-status = live}}{{cite book|last=Wintle|first=Justin|title=Romancing Vietnam: inside the boat country|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=C953OFzcZUYC&q=Binh+Hoa+massacre&pg=PA260|publisher=Signal Books Ltd|page=266 |year= 2006 |isbn= 1-904955-15-0 |access-date= 2016-10-14 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160609174551/https://books.google.com/books?id=C953OFzcZUYC&pg=PA260&dq=Binh+Hoa+massacre&hl=en&ei=wE4YTrrWKoTmmAXv3Kkg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Binh%20Hoa%20massacre&f=false|archive-date= 2016-06-09 |url-status= dead }} In 2000, however, it was reported that a monument within the village, gave the dates of the massacre as October 22, 24, and 26, 1966 and said that 403 people were killed by the South Koreans.{{cite web|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/754022/Villagers-recall-S-Korean-atrocities-in-Viet-War.html?pg=all|title=Villagers recall S. Korean atrocities in Viet War; Troops massacred 1,600 civilians in all, survivors say|author=Paul Alexander|publisher=Associated Press|date=April 9, 2000|access-date=March 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329060224/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/754022/Villagers-recall-S-Korean-atrocities-in-Viet-War.html?pg=all|archive-date=March 29, 2016|url-status=dead}}

The district was in the operational area of the Blue Dragon Brigade.{{cite news|url = https://www.haebyeong.com/mchistory/99897|title = 신화를 남긴 해병대 '짜빈동 전투'|newspaper = 국방일보|date = 2011-02-15|access-date = 2024-09-10}} Most of the victims were children, elderly and women.{{cite web|url=http://www.quangngai.gov.vn/quangngai/english//homepage/20128761658_1995/|title=Bình Hòa Massacre|publisher=Quảng Ngãi government|access-date=2011-07-09|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808080044/http://www.quangngai.gov.vn/quangngai/english/homepage/20128761658_1995/|archive-date=2011-08-08 }} More than half the victims were women (including seven who were pregnant) and 166 children.{{Cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2066768/korean-troops-killings-vietnam-still-unresolved|title=Korean troops' killings in Vietnam still unresolved|work=South China Morning Post|access-date=2018-06-07|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140618/http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2066768/korean-troops-killings-vietnam-still-unresolved|archive-date=2018-06-12|url-status=live}} The South Korean soldiers burnt down all of the houses and killed hundreds of cows and buffalo after the atrocities. A number of the survivors of the massacre joined the Viet Cong and fought against the United States and its Allies, one of which was South Korea.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wisoI-wP5MC|title=The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory|last=Oliver|first=Kendrick|date=2006|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719068911|page=11|language=en}} South Korean forces were also accused of conducting a similar massacre in Binh Tai village within the same year.{{cite news

|url = http://www.hani.co.kr/h21/vietnam/eng-jujoo.html

|title = Words of Condemnation and Drinks of Reconciliation Massacre in Vin Dinh Province All 380 People Turned into Dead Bodies Within an Hour.

|newspaper = Hankyoreh

|date = 1999-09-02

|access-date = 2011-07-09

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110722140702/http://www.hani.co.kr/h21/vietnam/eng-jujoo.html

|archive-date = 2011-07-22

|url-status = live

}}{{cite book |last= Armstrong |first= Charles |title= Critical Asian Studies, Volume 33, Issue 4 :America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam |publisher= Routledge |page=530 |year=2001}}

The massacre was discussed when British journalist Justin Wintle visited Vietnam in the late 1980s, where the report on the massacre was disclosed to Western media.{{rp|12}}