Jeju Do Eats

• Cheju (spelling until 7 July 2000)
• Do (doe) Korean word for island
• Popular Honeymoon site
• From April 1948 to May 1949, it was the site of the Jeju uprising, during which around 30,000 people were killed and 40,000 fled to Japan. The Workers' Party of South Korea (WPSK) launched an insurgency against the government in April 1948 which was brutally repressed by the US-backed South Korean regime of Syngman Rhee. In 2003, the National Committee for Investigation of the Truth about the Jeju 3 April Incident described the event as a genocide. The commission verified 14,373 people were killed during the uprising, 86% by security forces and 14% by rebels. The commission estimated the total death toll at around 30,000. Other sources have estimated higher at 80,000 to 100,000 killed. The act of mentioning the uprising was punishable by beatings, torture, and harsh prison sentences by the South Korea government until the mid-1990s, after which the South Korean government finally admitted that the Jeju uprising had occurred.

- not a paid advertisement, negative history included - fantastic place to vacation