The Sandong area preserves “Sandong Aega,” a song mourning people lost amid the Yeosu–Suncheon Incident and turmoil around the Korean War. Sources differ on its protagonist and circumstances, making details difficult to establish.
Unverified execution scenes and claims that villagers simply turned on one another have been removed. The song is presented cautiously as a local tradition of remembering tragedy, separate from the cornelian-cherry landscape.