Yeosu-Suncheon Incident Archives

KBW Explainer | How Decades-Late Justice for the Yeosu–Suncheon Incident Is Being Undermined by a New Legal Crisis

Related: A Second Betrayal: Yeosu-Suncheon Victims’ Families Say Justice Has Been Stolen Again What happened and why it still looms SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Yeosu–Suncheon Incident (October 1948 onward) erupted when soldiers of the 14th Regiment in Yeosu refused orders to suppress the Jeju 4·3 Uprising and instead rebelled, leading to months of brutal [...]

A Second Betrayal: Yeosu-Suncheon Victims’ Families Say Justice Has Been Stolen Again

SUNCHEON, South Korea, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The families of those killed in the 1948 Yeosu-Suncheon Incident say they are being wronged a second time—this time not by soldiers, but by lawyers. More than seventy-five years after their parents and grandparents were branded traitors and executed during South Korea’s turbulent birth, survivors are now accusing [...]