Historical records documenting the Jeju April 3 Uprising and Massacre, along with materials on South Korea’s postwar ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Korean author Han Kang’s haunting novel ‘We Do Not Part’ turns readers into memory-keepers of the ...

yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris), looks further back at another dark chapter in South Korean history — the Jeju Island massacre ... nightmares after finishing a book on the killing fields of ...

Both the book’s strength and weakness, writes Johny, are its style of writing. It takes readers through waves of history, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ... the Jeju Island massacre of 1948.

THE AVERAGE American reader gets through about 11 books a year. No one wants to waste ... A writer travels from Seoul to Jeju island to care for her friend’s pet bird while she is in hospital.

Acting President Han Duck-soo called for national unity on Thursday as he marked the anniversary of a civilian uprising on Jeju Island in 1948. Han issued the call during a ceremony commemorating ...

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 ...

Martial law was first declared in South Korea in October 1948 to put down an armed mutiny by a regiment of the South Korean Army resisting deployment to Jeju to suppress the communist uprising.

Kang’s novels offer an important lens for understanding Korean history and politics, and the grief and strength of the Korean people.

Its history, too, quietly permeates the narrative. The trauma of the Jeju uprising, known in South Korea as the Jeju April 3 incident, alongside the scars of colonialism and dictatorship is not ...