Korean Friendship Bell

This guide to the Korean Friendship Bell in Los Angeles explains why South Korea chose this exact hilltop above the harbor for its 1976 bicentennial gift, tracing the site's history as Fort MacArthur and its link to General Douglas MacArthur's Incheon landing during the Korean War. It follows the bell's casting, modeled on a Korean original nearly twelve hundred years old, and the craftsmen who traveled from Korea to raise the twelve zodiac columns around it. Look closely at the figures on the bell's surface, where a Korean spirit stands arm in arm with America's Goddess of Liberty.