The Massacres at Mt. Halla: Sixty Years of Truth Seeking in South Korea is a well-written history of the Jeju 4.3 incidents and the continuous struggle for justice fought by the victims and activists. More than 25,000 civilians were killed or wounded on Jeju Island between 1947 and 1954, mostly by state agents such as the police, the military, or rightist youth groups. However, they needed to wait almost half a century to see a commission established under the Jeju Special Act in 2000. The Jeju commission was created with a mandate to investigate the civilian sacrifice in the course of counterinsurgency operations during the armed conflict in Jeju that started on March 1, 1947, including during the disturbance on April 3, 1948, and ended on September 21, 1954. Hun Joon Kim explains why and through what process South Korea set up the Jeju commission in 2000, what the Jeju...

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