The Jeju Uprising/Massacres

[chegitz guevara]

Never heard of this before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_Uprising

This is why:


In one of its first official acts, the South Korean national assembly passed the National Traitors Act in 1948, which among other measures, outlawed the Workers Party of South Korea. For almost fifty years after the massacre it was an arrestable crime followed by beatings, torture and a lengthy prison sentence if any South Korean even mentioned the events of the Jeju uprising.Wow.

[FreeFocus]

Thanks for posting this. It's just ironic, people (rightly, but blindly) criticize Stalinist regimes for controlling information and they draw on the 1984 comparisons, but this epitomizes it. If people aren't allowed to talk and write about history, it gets forgotten over time. South Korea is a disgusting state, the actions its carried out against labor and Left groups is unacceptable.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

It was a pretty major event that is well known among people familiar with recent Korean history. In my experience most Koreans know about it, despite the official prohibition against mentioning it.

[RedStarOverChina]

In the island of Geoje in 1952, thousands of Chinese and DPRK POWs rioted in response to the attempts of brainwashing and physical atrocities commited against them by the US, South Korean as well as KMT interrogators from Taiwan. They captured the top American commander and negotiated a truce after bloody battles against tanks and machine guns sent against them.

The truce was betrayed the moment POWs released their hostage. Hundreds were killed, and the persecution against them intensified. Many of the Chinese POWs were forcefully shipped to Taiwan in the end.

Bet you didn't know about that either.

[scourge007]

I just found this after I read the article.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre

[Nial Fossjet]

Shouldn't it be "Corea"?

[RedStarOverChina]

Shouldn't it be "Corea"?
That was the spelling before the Japanese occupation, anyhow.

Japan was not happy with being placed behind Corea in world events, since alphabetically the letter C is way ahead of J. So they did the sensible thing and changed another country's name.

[FreeFocus]

I didn't know about the Bodo League Massacre or Japan changing the name of Corea. Pretty unbelievable stuff.

[scarletghoul]

South Korea is a fascist state and it really upsets me how much terrible shit Korea has gone through at the hands of imperialists and their puppets

Would love to hear from our resident ROK sympathisers on this..

[RedStarOverChina]

I can't imagine anyone here would disagree that the South Korean regime was established by fascist scums. The government was almost entirely composed of collaborators during the Japanese occupation.

Syngman Rhee, the founding president of South Korean usurped his position by pushing out, and then assasinating the leader of Korean government-in-exile, a widely respected Kim Gu.

[chegitz guevara]

That was the spelling before the Japanese occupation, anyhow.

Japan was not happy with being placed behind Corea in world events, since alphabetically the letter C is way ahead of J. So they did the sensible thing and changed another country's name.

You are joking, right? :p Since Japan refers to itself as Nihon.

The previous name of Korea was Joseon Dynasty. Though after the Sino-Japanese war, the Joseon fell and the Daehan-jeguk, Greater Korean Empire, was founded.

[RedStarOverChina]

You are joking, right? :p Since Japan refers to itself as Nihon.

The previous name of Korea was Joseon Dynasty. Though after the Sino-Japanese war, the Joseon fell and the Daehan-jeguk, Greater Korean Empire, was founded.Google it if you don't believe me. :)

Nihon is what a few old-school Japanese folks call it. Most other Japanese have (sometimes grudgingly) accepted the name "Japan" (and have so for a long time), which originated from Cantonese pronounciation, I think.

Goryeo (or "Corea" to you Westerners) has been the name of the peninsula for more than 10 centuries. The dynasty of Joseon made its name synonomous with Goryeo/Corea about 400 years afterwards. So the two became one and the same.

In fact, Joseon is still the name adopted by the DPRK. So a literal translation of DPRK's name would be Democratic People's Republic of Joseon.

And that's how we in China differ the two regimes, Joseon=DPRK, Hanguk=ROK.

The ROK, interestingly enough, did not adopt either the name Joseon or Goryeo/Corea. Instead, they went with the name of the short-lived "Empire" (which was actually a puppet state of Japan)---Han-guk, or "Great Country". The full name of ROK, Dae-Han-Min-Guk, literally means the Great-Great-Republic. Go figure. :lol: