 On the day the U.S. report was issued , then @-@ President Bill Clinton issued a statement declaring , " I deeply regret that Korean civilians lost their lives at No Gun Ri in late July , 1950 " . The next day , he told reporters that " things happened which were wrong " . But the U.S. did not offer the apology and individual compensation sought by the survivors and the South Korean government . Instead , the U.S. offered a $ 4 million plan for a memorial at No Gun Ri , and a scholarship fund . The survivors later rejected the plan , because the memorial would be dedicated to all the war 's South Korean civilian dead , rather than just the No Gun Ri victims . 
