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The Nobel Prize-winning Korean author Han Kang’s haunting novel ‘We Do Not Part’ turns readers into memory-keepers of the 1948 Jeju massacre, lest we forget the wounds of history.
South Korea's Jeju Island on Thursday collectively mourned the deaths of tens of thousands of their relatives and neighbors slaughtered nearly eight decades ago during a massacre in the very early ...
Report says authorities knew of Muan airport facing high risk of bird strikes years before 179 people died in crash ...
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes together comprise three sites that make up 18,846 ha. It includes Geomunoreum, regarded as the finest lava tube system of caves anywhere, with its multicoloured ...
Most residents are ethnic Koreans. Jeju (formerly Cheju) falls within the Subtropical Zone and displays a temperate oceanic climate. It has the four distinctive seasons of spring, summer, autumn and ...
Though the Jeju Massacre lasted until September 1954, the majority of the killings occurred that winter of 1948-49. The symbol of the Jeju Massacre -- a red camellia flower, which blooms on the ...