South Korea's Summer Of Terror

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History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

At the start of the Korean war in 1950, tens of thousands of suspected communist sympathisers were executed by the South Korean military. The regime feared they might support the North Korean invaders. Many of them were political prisoners, who were taken from their cells and shot dead. Mike Lanchin has been hearing from Gaeseong Lee, whose father was a prisoner at Daejeon jail when he was killed.

Photo:Gaeseong Lee as a small child with his parents. Copyright: Gaeseong Lee.

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1:10.4	Service with me Mike Lanchin today we're going back to the summer of
1:14.8	1950 and the start of the first major conflict of the Cold War between
1:19.6	Communist North Korea and US supported South Korea. As the war began, thousands of
1:26.2	suspected left-wing sympathizers in South Korea were killed by the country's
1:31.0	military. I've been hearing from the son of one of those victims.
1:36.0	There were six of us in my family.
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