An Original Thought@lemmy.ml to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTIL About the Jeju Massacre, where South Korean forces wiped out 10 percent of the island of Jeju for the crime of organizing a General StrikeNSFWen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down12
arrow-up1113arrow-down1external-linkTIL About the Jeju Massacre, where South Korean forces wiped out 10 percent of the island of Jeju for the crime of organizing a General StrikeNSFWen.wikipedia.orgAn Original Thought@lemmy.ml to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoWell it’s literally taught at school nowadays. I’m actually pretty surprised you’ve never heard of it. See also https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/koreanheritage/20250411/jeju-april-3-uprising-archive-added-to-unesco-memory-of-the-world-register
minus-squareAn Original Thought@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoWhile 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.
minus-squarelens0021@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days ago 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.
Well it’s literally taught at school nowadays. I’m actually pretty surprised you’ve never heard of it.
See also https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/koreanheritage/20250411/jeju-april-3-uprising-archive-added-to-unesco-memory-of-the-world-register
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.
Maybe I just forgot, but one page is to hard to remember. I graduacted high school ~15 years ago.