The Jeju uprising (in South Korea, the Jeju April 3 incident, Korean: 제주 4·3 사건) was an uprising on Jeju Island, South Korea, from April 1948 to May 1949. Tensions on Jeju Island escalated with protests following a police assault incident during the 1947 March 1st Independence Movement Day celebration, and the suppression of those protests which resulted in 6 deaths.
The Jeju uprising (in South Korea, the Jeju April 3 incident, Korean: 제주 4·3 사건) was an uprising on Jeju Island, South Korea, from April 1948 to May 1949. Tensions on Jeju Island escalated with protests following a police assault incident during the 1947 March 1st Independence Movement Day celebration, and the suppression of those protests which resulted in 6 deaths.
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