Jeju Island was, because ofits geographic location, a strategic military base in Northeast Asia. The scorched-earth strategy that spanned out from the middle of November 1948 in Jeju coincided with the need to pacify all resistance before the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Korea scheduled for the end of the following month, a deadline that was later pushed back to June 1949.The Jeju 4.3 Incident notonly is of great importance within Korean modern history, but also holds globalsignificance. Remembers the April 3rd Uprising and Massacre and Jeju's history. In short, a massacre of unarmed civilians was committed on Jeju Island in the name of governmental authority. Jeju Uprising / Jeju Massacre. (www.facebook.com/jejudarktours) I just found a NGO based in Jeju called “The Unforgettable Past – Jeju Dark Tours”. Firstof all, the State Department had asserted that the USAMGIK should continue tostay in Korea, emphasizing the strategic importance of the Korean peninsula.However, as the year-end withdrawal date approached, the State Department couldhave chosen to encourage the brutal attack against the resistance on Jeju inorder to get the job done before the end of the year.Secondly, given that theState Department urged for postponing the withdrawal, citing the confusion inKorea caused by the rebellion of the Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion, it is likelythat U.S. military authorities would have also felt impatient about eliminatingany “obstacles” to its plan to pull out by the end of December.
Jeju-Island gilt als DIE Flitterwochen-Insel – mit grausiger Vergangenheit. JEJU ISLAND ― Camellia, called "dongbaek" in Korean, is an iconic flower of Jeju Island. The flower bursts into bloom during winter and begins to fall from trees as spring comes. While it is true that the KMAG advisors could do nothingabout the 38 people already executed, at the very least, they could have takenaction to stop the other 38 from being slaughtered. Its surrender also endedthe country’s 35 years of colonial rule over Korea. Die Bezeichnung Massaker von Gwangju, oder auch oft Gwangju-Massaker genannt, resultiert aus dem brutalen Vorgehen der Soldaten gegen Demonstranten und Bürger der Stadt Gwangju zwischen dem 18. und 27. However, the additionalexecutions were recorded only as something that was accidentally witnessed.With this as background, wecan now better understand why the U.S. military participated in thescorched-earth strategy, and why it commenced the latter in mid-November. Soldiers laidsiege to all the mountain villages, set fire to every house and slaughteredeveryone in sight regardless of age or gender.The responsibility for suchheinous actions lies with President Rhee Syngman and the USAMGIK. Hello Gayoon! Of course, Jeju Island is still unquestionably beautiful, but when I heard that most of the famous tourist attraction sites were once the graveyards of many souls, I was shocked by the forgotten history, the Jeju April 3 Incident. It was under the decree of martial law that theindiscriminate slaughter of civilians was carried out and mountain villageswere set on fire by Korean soldiers.