| ..an old woman collecting seaweed on the rocks near Hyopjae Beach on Cheju Island. Cheju Island is the largest island in Korea, and is an island province unto itself. The people of Cheju Island are hearty folk, and are kind to visitors. However, these people, like the people of South Cholla Province, have suffered greatly in recent history for their past strong feelings for separation from the administrative control of the mainland. The people of Cheju fought a guerrilla war against mainland control starting in 1948, for which they paid dearly. Between 15,000 and 30,000 islanders were killed in the fighting and by terrorism committed by right-wing mainlanders. The violence ended by 1950, leaving one in every five or six islanders dead and more than half of the villages destroyed.Click here to read more about the Cheju Uprising and the U.S. Military Government in Korea |
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