His grandfather fled, his father was executed, his mother was tortured, his village was burned -- and for decades, his memories were suppressed. Now, Song Seung-moon wants answers.
’s interior became a wasteland. Terrified islanders hid from troops in claustrophobic lava tunnels. Those whom the authorities deemed as suspects, including women and children, were massacred.
Mr. Song and his mother suffered from malnourishment during a hardscrabble existence. Their burned home was one ofJeju fell into the dark shadow of the 1950-1953 Korean War. For almost half a century, talk of the violence and the estimated tens of thousands of deaths on both sides was suppressed. Thousands feared guilt by association.embraced democratic rule in 1987, and researchers were allowed to investigate the incident.
After defeating Japan, U.S. troops occupied southern Korea in September 1945 and formed the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea, or USAMGIK. A domestic government took power in Seoul in August 1948, but the U.S. military retained command of Korean forces under a September agreement.Mr. Oh was speaking at the Jeju Forum earlier this month after sessions covering political, economic and environmental matters.
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