The Jeju April 3rd Peace Foundation is holding exhibitions of materials drawn from its archive, as well as from private collections and the National Archives of Korea.

The special exhibition that displays comprehensive original records of the tragedy is being held until June.

Joseph Kim reports.

This is the April 3rd Memorial Hall in the Jeju April 3rd Peace Park.

Materials and documents used for examining and classifying 14,500 victims of the horrible April 3rd Incident are piled up at the entrance of the exhibition hall.


That’s a part of the special exhibition “Jeju 4·3 Archive Exhibition” which is organized by the Jeju April 3rd Peace Foundation.


Photos, videos and remains that show the tragedy and documents created during the decades of fact finding and honor recovery are on display.

The police’s firing on March 1st, 1947 sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of the incident.
Materials and situations surrounding the firing are open to the public for the first time.



The National Archives of Korea opens originals of the lists of convicted persons and minutes of cabinet meetings made during the incident to the public.

Materials donated by individuals to the province and the April 3rd Peace Foundation are also displayed.


Memoirs published by the 93-year-old living victim, Mr. (김두황) Kim Du-hwang, who was framed and taken to the police more than 70 years ago, and finally acquitted at the recent retrial, and articles on the incident are on display.

The collection includes postcards exchanged between prisoners and their families, and death notices.


The April 3rd Peace Foundation is attempting to include the collections in the UNESCO Memory of the World.


INTERVIEW
Yang Jo-hoon / Chairman, Jeju April 3rd Peace Foundation
We’ve collected materials on the incident to include them in the UNESCO Memory of the World list. Those collections are now being displayed at the special exhibition.
<인터뷰 : 양조훈 / 제주4·3평화재단 이사장>
"4.3 기록물을 유네스코 세계기록 유산으로 등재하기 위해서 지금 저희들이 여러 가지 자료를 모으고 있는데 수집된 자료를 총정리해서 이번에 특별전으로 선보이게 됐습니다."

The special exhibition “Jeju 4·3 Archive Exhibition” is being held through the end of June at the April 3rd Peace Memorial Hall

Joseph Kim, KCTV