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Created page with "*''Korean'': 済州島 ''(Jejudo)'' Jeju Island is a Korean island located to the south of the Korean peninsula, west of Kyushu. The largest island within Korean territor..."
*''Korean'': 済州島 ''(Jejudo)''
Jeju Island is a Korean island located to the south of the Korean peninsula, west of [[Kyushu]]. The largest island within Korean territory, it was in ancient times intimately intertwined with the larger maritime world of southern Korea, the [[Tsushima]] and [[Iki Islands]], western Kyushu, and the [[Ryukyu Islands]]. Today, Jeju is primarily known as a vacation destination for Koreans.
==Early History==
==Modern History==
Within modern history, Jeju is perhaps most famous for a series of incidents and uprisings in the late 1940s, in which people on the island protested against the north-south division of Korea and were at times met with deadly violence by security forces in return. One such clash took place on 1 March 1947, when security forces fired upon such a group of protestors and killed six. This then led to a larger armed uprising against the security forces, on 3 April 1948. Believing that the South Korean Community Party was playing a part in this uprising, the South Korean authorities launched a Great Purge; according to some sources as many as 60,000 people, roughly 70% of the population of Jeju, were slaughtered.<ref>Ôshiro Sadatoshi 大城貞俊, "Heiwa no shôchô toshite no saiken o" 平和の象徴としての再建を, ''Shûkan Kin'yôbi'' 週刊金曜日 1259 (29 Nov 2019), 15.</ref>
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[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
Jeju Island is a Korean island located to the south of the Korean peninsula, west of [[Kyushu]]. The largest island within Korean territory, it was in ancient times intimately intertwined with the larger maritime world of southern Korea, the [[Tsushima]] and [[Iki Islands]], western Kyushu, and the [[Ryukyu Islands]]. Today, Jeju is primarily known as a vacation destination for Koreans.
==Early History==
==Modern History==
Within modern history, Jeju is perhaps most famous for a series of incidents and uprisings in the late 1940s, in which people on the island protested against the north-south division of Korea and were at times met with deadly violence by security forces in return. One such clash took place on 1 March 1947, when security forces fired upon such a group of protestors and killed six. This then led to a larger armed uprising against the security forces, on 3 April 1948. Believing that the South Korean Community Party was playing a part in this uprising, the South Korean authorities launched a Great Purge; according to some sources as many as 60,000 people, roughly 70% of the population of Jeju, were slaughtered.<ref>Ôshiro Sadatoshi 大城貞俊, "Heiwa no shôchô toshite no saiken o" 平和の象徴としての再建を, ''Shûkan Kin'yôbi'' 週刊金曜日 1259 (29 Nov 2019), 15.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Geographic Locations]]