Historical re-enactments, role-play that recreates a historical event, are a global phenomenon, evoking any time period one can think of from the battles of Roman and Napoleonic times through to those of World War I, World War II and Vietnam.

Re-Enacting the Korean War

The battle between the North and South, both real and imagined

Photographs by Kim Jae-Hwan / AFP / Getty Images

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