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Ha-young Choi
Ha-young Choi was an NK News correspondent based in Seoul. She studied Korean history, mainly focusing on modern Korean history at Korea University. Follow her on twitter @Hy_Choi0826
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Analysis Korea’s Jeju Massacre: Bringing America’s role to lightS.Korean scholars, activists visit U.S. to call for shared responsibility for massacre on Jeju Island In the late 1940s, as tensions over a soon-to-be divided Korean Peninsula simmered, a protest on Jeju Island was ruthlessly suppressed, claiming as many as 30,000 lives. Now a group of scholars and clergy from the island are endeavoring to raise awareness of the U.S. government and military's role in the incident. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |