About Jeju 4.3 Website

제주4.3 웹사이트에 대해

About the site creator

Tedd Chee is an adopted Korean-American who spent almost 10 years living in South Korea while teaching English. He spent four years living in Jeju Island where he first learned about the Jeju 4.3 Incident. Since learning about Jeju 4.3, it has become a passion of his to help spread knowledge and understanding of this tragedy.

What's in a Name?

This site uses the official name for the 제주4.3사건 (read "Jeju Sa.Sam sageon" in Korean) which is the Jeju April 3rd Incident. Other names that are used commonly when discussing this incident include The Jeju 4.3 Massacre, The Jeju 4.3 Uprising, and The Jeju 4.3 Rebellion.

Using this Website

On the main page of this site, you can find a series of events that were either important in the Jeju 4.3 Incident or are representative examples of events that happened during the Jeju 4.3 Incident. Events are listed in chronological order. Click on the event to learn more about it.

The Jeju 4.3 tl;dr page contains a short summary of the Jeju 4.3 Incident.

The Learn More page contains some extra information addressing controversies surrouding 4.3, current happenings related to 4.3, and some opinions on teaching and learning about 4.3.

The Contact page contains links to contact the site creator as well as links to other Jeju 4.3 websites and official organizations.

Hopes For This Page

The hope for this page is to provide both a general summary as well as more detailed information for non-Korean speaking people to learn more about the Jeju 4.3 Incident. I hope that people who visit this site come away with more knowledge and understanding of this tragedy and how it continues to affect people in Jeju today.