I am Korean living in Korea and this is a not well-known massacre even in Korea. I just heard the public does not pay attention to this though they should. (I am the one of public)
Indeed, how can anyone pay attention to something they’re never informed of?
I have edited my comment. The public should do pay attention. At least the government, politicians, or mass media should. The most famous thing from the island currently is its fruit. Thank you for sharing this link because it made me visit the article.
Well it’s literally taught at school nowadays. I’m actually pretty surprised you’ve never heard of it.
While it may be taught in school nowadays if it wasn’t when they were in school then it would be hard to imagine them hearing about it otherwise unless they pay very close attention to the media.
All eight current high school Korean history textbooks describe the Jeju April 3 Incident with an average of over one page of content. – https://www.jejusori.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=435552
Maybe I just forgot, but one page is to hard to remember. I graduacted high school ~15 years ago.
The Blowback Podcast did a whole series on Korea - their show is about the US’s fucked up stuff in various countries. It’s worth starting from the beginning of this season for the build up, but here’s their episode on Jeju Island https://spotify.link/RkJCdID6AXb
That was actually where I heard about this from. I haven’t finished the series yet but this event in particular seemed significant to me.