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Jeju Island

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Jeju Island


1. In Hwabuk-ri (화북리), at a exact site of registered address of the maternal family line. 

Registered domiciles of many Zainichi Koreans today are located in the Korean Peninsula, and these are often required for administrative procedures such as naturalization, marriage, or childbirth in Japan. Due to postwar disruptions and displacement, many Zainichi did not register in their home land’s family register or failed to complete the necessary procedures, therefore the registered domicile is often unknown, making it difficult to issue family register documents. I was able to identify my grandfather’s registered address, the place of his birth, through the process of preparing documents for a Korean passport extension, which is an outcome that is not easily available to many under these conditions.

2. The number of victims in Hwabuk-ri (화북리) during the April 3rd Uprising and Massacre (1947-1954). 

The estimated 25,000 to 30,000 civilians were killed during the time, which was about 10% of the island's population. 
| Exhibited at Jeju 4 · 3 Peace Park

3. The part of the village today.

4. Taxi uncle and I double-checking the address and correct location

5. People I met mentioned that Jeju was once told that there were only stones and winds because of wartime and postwar damage. 

Stones are found in every eyesights going around Jeju, as well as in archival images. 
| National Committee for Investigation of the Truth about the Jeju April 3 Incident. (2003). The Jeju 4·3 Incident investigation report. Jeju 4·3 Peace Foundation.

6. Here was afar just a day before.

7. Sanggari 4.3 Victims Memorial Corps. 

A joint memorial service for the victims of the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Jeju April 3 Incident was held there on April 6th, 2024. 

8. In the first section of exhibition at Jeju 4 · 3 Peace Park.

‘Deployment of 70,000 Japanese Troops - Imperial Japan decided to fortify Jeju in March 1945 as its island of Okinawa faced impending invasion following heavy U.S. bombing. To that end, 70,000 Japanese soldiers were stationed on Jeju.’ | Exhibited at Jeju 4 · 3 Peace Park

9. Mention of Jeju islanders stationed in Japan returning to Jeju. 

Osaka, where I was born, became a primary destination for Jeju islanders who were recruited or coerced into labor migration during the colonial period. Jeju migrants formed dense networks in the city over the decades, and my maternal family was one of many who followed an established migration route through relatives already based in Osaka.

10. Arcade in Jeju brought me back to arcades in Osaka, similar views similar feels, the one on the way to go to Disk Union ^^* 

11. Orange Angel

12. Chosen Nippo read in Kanji, Jeju Report read in Hangul.

13. Museum of Chusa Kim Jeong Hyui. Jeju contains another crucial side of history as an “island of political prisoners”, which was used as a place of exile for people deemed politically dangerous or inconvenient, taking advantage of its geographic separation from the mainland from the Joseon dynasty. 

Jeju was repeatedly framed as a peripheral and controllable space, and this logic persisted into Japanese colonial rule and later the U.S. military government and the South Korean state.

14. Wall on the other side of our registered address


15. Outside of Community Center built after our house

16. 평화의 섬

17. Island of Peace



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