Preface to the revised and expanded edition ..........
15

Chapter 1 Prologue: A Journey into Modern History ..........
17

Xiaodong and Yusahui.....
17
The victory of Chijak.....
20
Gurye story.....
22
Maecheon and Go Gwang-sun.....
26
Maecheon and Hoyang School.....
32
Count Myeongdong.....
35
Go Seok-man and the independence movement...
38
With just a camera, I went to the scene of the turbulent independence movement...
42
My EBS Independence Movement History rebroadcast on Gwangju MBC...
45

Chapter 2: The Discovery of the Great Imperial Empire of Goryeo: Cheongju and the Jikji Heart Sutra
48

MBC Chungbuk's project that interrupted my Bible study...
48
The historical Jesus and Mark.....
50
Why can't we call the "Jikjisimgyeong" "sutra"?
52
《Baekunhwasang Eorok》, a new understanding of Goryeo civilization.....
56
Look at the Yongdusaji Iron Gate! .....
57
The kingdom of the emperor, Goryeo, and its reign name, Junpung! .....
59
The cowardly twist of history called the Wihwado Rebellion...
60
The reign title of King Gwanggaeto the Great, the Great King of Pyeongan: Yeongnak.....
62
Preface to the revised and expanded edition ..........
15
Goryeo was an empire, not a vassal state...
64
It's painful to know.
But you have to know.....
64
A New Understanding of the Tripitaka Koreana at Haeinsa Temple:
A clear sign of a great Buddhist empire...
.. 65
The Tripitaka Koreana: Not the Inner Tripitaka! .....
67
The physical reality of the 80,000-page plate...
69
Goryeo was the world's most civilized country at the time...
71
The reality of distortion in the History of Goryeo...
73
Goryeo and Joseon, chronological and historical records.....
74
Does it make sense that there is no original text in the History of Goryeo? .....
76
Sejong's conscience, hesitation...
79
Distortion of modern history, distortion of ancient history...
80
Cheongju hymn.....
81
Lovely city of light, 2,000 eyes...
82
Dolmen in Jeolla Province...
84
Jeju KBS's producer Seo Jeong-hyeop, Jeju historian Professor Yang Jin-geon...
86
Sad Jeju.....
88
The story behind "Jejudoji"...
91
Yeosu MBC's PD Kim Ji-hong...
93
Blair and Bruce Cummings.....
95
Keynote address at the 73rd International Wisemen World Congress...
97
Jeju 4.3 and Yeosu are one...
98
Preface to the Yeosu MBC Memorial Lecture...
100
The story of the nail that was stuck in Xiaotong's chest, the Buregiso.....
103
The story of Shinjeon Village in Nakan-myeon, Suncheon...
105
Hong Dong-ho and the final scene of the May 18th Uprising...
108
The Jeju April 3 Incident became known through the Yeosu-Suncheon Uprising.
110

Chapter 3: Understanding the Liberation Period
112

What is liberation? .....
112
The irony of liberation...
114
The vacuum of liberation, from the era of imperialism to the era of the Cold War order! .....
116
Yeo Un-hyeong and the New Korea Youth Party, the March 1st Independence Movement...
118
Yeo Un-hyeong's Imperial Hotel lecture, Ahn Jung-geun's theory of peace in the East...
120
National Foundation Alliance.....
122
Joseon National Foundation Preparatory Committee...
123
Governor-General of the US Military Government in Korea...
125
The death of Yeo Woon-hyung...
125
Correct understanding of the People's Committee...
127
“People” is not the language of the Communist Party...
130
Liberation Origin: The Appearance of Two Puppets...
132
Who is Syngman Rhee? A rebuke from Danjae Shin Chae-ho...
133
Kim Il-sung's journey...
135
The entry process of the two puppets...
136
A gap called liberation, a liberation that lasted only 25 days? .....
137
The Soviet and American approaches...
138
Korea is America's enemy.....
139
America's biggest mistake in world history: the persistence of the Japanese emperor system...
141
From the Japanese flag to the American flag! .....
142
Unlike the United States, the Soviet Union did not envision direct rule...
143
From the Pugachev to Pyongyang Public Stadium...
145
Syngman Rhee and MacArthur.....
147
Syngman Rhee's Voice of America shortwave broadcast.....
148
I am a commoner, I do not want to be in charge of the government.....
149
Holy crook.....
151
The order of entry of foreign powers...
152
Provisional government officials who are out of touch with the times...
153
Yeo Un-hyeong's Mistake: The Creation of the People's Republic of Korea...
154
The US military government's artificial inhumanity: the death of Yeo Un-hyeong...
157
The outlawing of the People's Committee...
157
Jeju Island People's Committee...
158
Division and Civil War: What the People Hated Most...
159
Idealistic Imagination: The Combination of Yeo Un-hyeong and Kim Gu...
161
Kim Gu's greatness and simplicity, and his inherently inferior political vision...
162
Baekbeom's greatest error: stubborn opposition to trusteeship...
163
What is a trusteeship? .....
164
The origins of the left and right...
166
Trusteeship epistemology.....
167
The original meaning of trusteeship: Establishment of the Provisional Democratic Government of Korea...
168
Trusteeship is a good thing.....
170
Dong-A Ilbo's fake news...
171
The Korean Democratic Party and anti-trusteeship.....
172
The anti-trusteeship alliance between the Provisional Government and the Korean Democratic Party is a perfect match...
175
Song Jin-woo's Death: The Disappearance of True National Conservatism...
177

Chapter 4 Jeju April 3rd ..........
180

From Tamna to Jeju...
180
Jeju in Honam...
182
Jeju pastor, most of them are day robbers.....
183
Horses, abalone, tangerines: Tamra's secret...
184
You young na young .....
185
Lee Hyung-sang's man-catching Confucian rationalism...
187
Tamna Sunryukdo and Namhwan Museum, Dang-o-baek Jeol-o-baek lost...
189
The Worst Medieval Christianity to Hit Jeju Island: The Shinchuk Uprising...
191
Catholicism must reflect! The corruption of the church and the corruption of the world...
192
Imperialism of the Paris Foreign Missions Society: Mutel and Colin de Plancy.....
194
The prestige of Myeongdong Cathedral...
195
Kim Won-young's "Sushinyeongyak," a synonym for shameful cultural eradication theory...
196
The gangster priests of the Paris Foreign Missions Society: Kim Won-young, Lacruz, and Musset...
197
A Mission of Violence and Greed: The Resurrection of the Crusades, the Foolish Emperor Gojong...
199
Foreign Mission Society's gangster mission and
A Catholic teacher who shares the subjective piety of the men...
200
The collusion between the gangster priest and the Bongse-gwan...
201
Lee Jae-su and de Plancy.....
202
Kimi Kayomaru .....
203
Ikuno-ku, Ikaino in Osaka...
206
Kim Jong-un's biological mother, Jeju woman Ko Yong-hee...
207
Koreans' consciousness raising movement...
208
The Jeju People's Committee's progressiveness and independence...
210
Buk Elementary School's March 1st Independence Movement Day Jeju Island Competition...
211
Street protests: 6 dead, 8 injured...
212
What is a cheerleading police officer? Promotion from island to province...
213
The Boksihwan incident...
214
My barber shop man.....
215
The sad Jeju sound echoed through Jeju KBS Hall...
216
The pain of writing...
219
Jeju general strike after the March 1st mass shooting...
220
Cho Byung-ok is a bad person, and the police shooting was self-defense...
222
The first governor, Park Kyung-hoon, a man of conscience...
222
Northwest Youth League.....
223
Kim Il-sung and Pak Hon-yong.....
224
Great change.....
226
Armstrong, a professor of Korean studies at Columbia University
Assessing changes in North Korean society...
. 227
Ardent supporters of Syngman Rhee...
228
Seo Cheong's atrocities, Seo Cheong's father Jo Byeong-ok, Jang Taek-sang...
230
The April 3rd Incident...
230
April 3 was by no means an armed uprising...
232
The South Korean Labor Party is a fiction...
233
April 3rd has nothing to do with the South Korean Labor Party...
234
Kim Ik-ryeol's peaceful resolution, and Jo Byeong-ok's sabotage of it...
235
Problem child Park Jin-kyung, it's okay to kill all 300,000 Jeju residents...
237
Park Jin-kyung killed.....
238
Lieutenant Moon Sang-gil and Sergeant Son Seon-ho:
Build their statues in Jeju City! ...
239
Jeju Island residents' boycott of Syngman Rhee...
242
Demolish the monument and statue of Park Jin-kyung! .....
243
Rethink Police Day! .....
244

Chapter 5 Yeosu-Suncheon People's Uprising ..........
245

Military English School.....
245
South Korean National Defense Guard.....
247
Yeosu 14th Regiment.....
248
From rebellion to popular uprising! .....
249
History of Yeosu.....
251
Yeosu was a reverse:
Reject Joseon and protect the legitimate lineage of the Goryeo Empire...
252
Yeosu Jimin: It's like carrying two burdens on one body...
253
Sambok Sampa .....
255
Yakmu Yeosu Shimuguk...
256
A strangely ambivalent figure called Seonjo...
256
Yeosu and Yi Sun-sin.....
257
The genealogy of the Panokseon: Jeju Deokpanbae, Tamna Kingdom legend...
258
The substructure of the naval battles of the Imjin War is Yeosu...
260
Yi Sun-sin and Du Mu-ak.....
261
Muhonam Shimu country.....
262
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the human imagination...
263
An Independent Understanding of the Imjin War: Not Just a Rebellion...
266
The mentally ill Seonjo, the tortured saint...
267
Jeongtak's new car.....
268
Battle of Chilcheollyang: The Fall of a Nation...
268
From Yeosu and Suncheon to Namwon and Jeonju: The People Who Became Nose.....
269
The Battle of Myeongnyang and the Japanese castles in Jeolla Province...
270
The people of Yeosu who built the turtle ship, and their descendants were killed so cruelly!
11,131 victims of the Yeosu-Suncheon Uprising (announced on November 11, 1949)
271
The heavy atmosphere in the Yeosu MBC audience, what is it?
273
Lieutenant Colonel Kim Ik-ryeol and the 14th Regiment...
273
The assassination of Park Jin-kyung and the beginning of a whirlwind of military strife...
274
That communist named Park Chung-hee...
276
The fiction, empty name, and pretense called Park Heon-yeong...
277
Lee Beom-seok, Syngman Rhee's lackey...
279
14th Regiment Purge: Kim Young-man's Sacrifice...
279
Conflict between the military and police after liberation...
281
Yeongam military-police clash incident...
283
Gurye Police Incident...
287
Jeju April 3rd and Yeosu Uprising Chronology 1943–1955
Choi Neung-jin's story...
288
The Revolutionary Volunteer Army Incident and the 14th Regiment...
290
Syngman Rhee, who spreads fake news...
292
US military government rice collection order...
293
Typhoon in Yeosun region, Noah's Ark.....
295
Ji Chang-soo is fiction.....
296
Appeal of the Soldiers' Committee.....
298
Not even a rebellion: Colonel Kim Young-hwan's great judgment...
299
Why the concept of rebellion cannot be established...
301
Syngman Rhee's order: Kill everyone, even children! .....
303
The Aftermath of the Yeosu-Suncheon Uprising: A Strong Right-Wing Anti-Communist System...
304

Jeju Peace Declaration - The Suffering of the Three Many and the Peace of the Three Nos...
306
71st Anniversary of the Yeosu-Suncheon Uprising Victims Memorial Ceremony.....
310
Jeju April 3rd Memorial Ceremony Commemorative Address (Harvard University Faculty Club, USA)
313

Jeju April 3rd and Yeosu Uprising Chronology 1943–1955
316

References .....................
420
Personal index .....................
428

Imperialism and the Cold War system,
The tragedy of our people in the 20th century!
The rigid division system began with the Yeosun Incident!

In the first half of the 20th century, we suffered under imperialist colonial rule, and immediately after liberation, our nation was divided amidst the global Cold War.
The division has lasted over 70 years.
When and how was the foundation of our political consciousness, which so firmly sustains this tragic division, formed? It arose precisely during the Jeju April 3 Incident and the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident.
This ideological division of consciousness, which escalated into the Korean War, a fratricidal war, was strengthened dozens of times and remains as an iron fortress today.
The distorted ideology of the Taegeukgi Unit that we still occasionally witness today is also due to this.
These are all aftereffects of the Jeju and Yeosu-Suncheon incidents.

We didn't know, and we couldn't know,
Our modern history, which was only misunderstood!
Jeju 4.3 and Yeosu People's Uprising!

The Jeju April 3 Incident and the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident were the greatest tragedies that occurred before and after the establishment of the Republic of Korea, and were also decisive events that led to the establishment of the anti-communist system.
The Jeju April 3 Incident resulted in the enactment of a special law, recognition of the excessive state violence used in the suppression process, and even the establishment of an official government apology and commemorative day.
However, the Yeosun Incident was not even properly mentioned in the political world, and it was not until 2021, after the first edition of this book, “We Didn’t Know Anything,” was published in 2019, that the Yeosun Incident Special Act was finally enacted in the National Assembly.
The official name is the “Special Act on the Investigation of the Truth of the Yeosu-Suncheon October 19 Incident and Restoration of Honor of the Victims.”

These two incidents did not happen separately at similar times by chance.
The first trigger for the Yeosu People's Uprising was the refusal of the local military units to deploy to Jeju Island for the suppression.
This was not mutiny, but a righteous refusal to obey an unjust order to the soldiers to kill their own people.
And the reason why many people responded to this was because of the insufficient liquidation of pro-Japanese collaborators, the administrative corruption, and the collapse of the people's livelihood that led to food shortages.


In the liberation period, Yeo Un-hyeong's construction committee and people's committee,
And a comprehensive evaluation of the US military government!
The US military government's suppression of the People's Committee resulted in the Jeju April 3 Incident and the Yeosu-Suncheon Uprising!

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the political situation after liberation, which was the fundamental background of the Jeju and Yeosu-Suncheon Incidents, encompassing the entirety of North and South Korea.
To do that, we must first understand the international situation at the time, namely the East Asian policies of the United States and the Soviet Union, the main axes of the Cold War order.
Although it is said that the conditional mood is meaningless in history, in order to weigh the pros and cons and learn lessons at each stage of historical progress, it is necessary to explore and reflect on various possibilities.


Immediately after liberation, the history of North and South Korea was headed toward division as forces faithfully representing the interests of the United States and the Soviet Union took the lead. However, even amidst the conflicting interests of the great powers, wise responses were able to prevent national division and achieve independence.
Because the possibility was so great, the author Dool deeply regrets the absence of Yeo Un-hyeong, who had a realistic sense that was not biased towards the left and right wing, and the National Foundation Preparation Committee.


The period of American military rule in South Korea from the liberation on August 15, 1945 until the establishment of the Republic of Korea government in 1948 was the period of American military rule in South Korea.
In this book, the author's assessment of the US military government is harsh.
The US military government consistently pursued American national interests in accordance with international strategy and was consistently in a state of complete ignorance about Korea.

The ignorance of absolute power brings about more terrible consequences than the malice of a well-informed person.
The idea of ​​simply governing the occupied territories conveniently negated the National Foundation Preparatory Committee and the local People's Committees, which had demonstrated the Korean people's ability to govern themselves, and allowed the existing pro-Japanese collaborators-centered order to be preserved.


The price of failing to liquidate pro-Japanese collaborators was not limited to the abstract question of just cause.
Even the meticulous management of the Japanese colonial rule disappeared, and the administration after liberation brought about the ruin of the people's livelihood through disorder and the machinations of corrupt officials.
The US military government failed to properly resolve the resulting confusion, and ended up blaming the left and suppressing it, which only served to encourage national division and conflict.
The tragic consequences of this trend are the Jeju April 3 Incident and the Yeosu Uprising.

A new discovery about the Goryeo Empire!
The history of Jeju Island and Yeosu, from ancient times to the modern era!

This book explains the world's first metal movable type book, Jikji Simgyeong, and provides a rich explanation of the Goryeo Dynasty against various backgrounds.
It is argued that Goryeo's metal type was not invented by accident, but rather that Goryeo was a powerful empire whose everyday life maintained the world's highest level of cultural capacity.
Even with only the physical evidence, such as the iron gate at Heungdeoksa Temple in Cheongju, Goryeo celadon, and the Tripitaka Koreana, Goryeo was the most powerful country in the world at the time.


The problem is that there are few historical documents that can properly understand Goryeo.
The author laments that even the History of Goryeo, compiled in the early Joseon Dynasty, is a history book with the intention of a coup force to disparage Goryeo.
This book also contains the history of persecution and suffering in Jeju and Yeosu from ancient times to the modern era, the past majesty of Tamna Kingdom, and the heroic stories of the people of Yeosu who helped General Yi Sun-sin overcome national crises.
It deepens and enriches our understanding of the region.

A rigorous and detailed “Jeju 4.3 and Yeosu People’s Uprising Chronology”!!
Helps to understand the history before and after liberation!
A historical narrative that will bring tears to your eyes!!

This book includes a 100-page appendix titled “Jeju 4.3 and Yeosu People’s Uprising Chronology.”
This timeline covers major events related to international events that significantly impacted the situation on the Korean Peninsula from 1943 to 1955, the political situation after liberation, and the popular uprisings in Jeju and Yeosu.
And it records in detail the entire process from the recent introduction of the Yeosun Incident Special Act to its passage in the National Assembly.


The wheel of history has moved along a definite axis of time.
Therefore, the primary task for a correct understanding of history is to organize the events that occurred in the endless course of time by examining their respective related structures.
The distinctive feature of this “Chronology of the Jeju April 3 Incident and the Yeosu-Suncheon Uprising” is that it does not simply list fragmentary events and dates, but rather reveals the nature of the events and makes clear value judgments even in brief descriptions.


This is also the basic stance of historical writing that runs through the entire book.
This book and timeline provide a comprehensive understanding of history.
It does not fit the events together superficially and linearly.
It analyzes the various causes involved in the incident and presents them in order of severity based on the complex circumstances at the time.
We also look at history from the perspective of the people living at that time.
We focus on the various human figures at the center of the incident, each character.
And he carries out a strict criticism of that person.
So this book and its chronology are stern.
And we understand the situation with universal human emotions.
It is said that overcoming a sad history does not mean trying to erase the sadness from history, but rather revealing that sadness, participating in that sadness, and sharing it as a sad history for all of us.
So, tears flow endlessly throughout this book.