Table of Contents

Note on Transcriptions and Testimonies
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Terror in Cheju Island
Chapter 2. Emergency Laws and the Crisis of Human Rights
Chapter 3. Ideological Persecution and the Massacre of 1950
Chapter 4. Observing Political Violence in Korea
Chapter 5. Politics of Fear in the Bombing of Korea
Chapter 6. The Bereaved Families
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

Korea's Grievous War presents the historical background, political motivations, legal bases, and social consequences of anticommunist violence, tracing the enduring legacy of this destruction in the testimonies of survivors and bereaved families that only now can give voice to the lived experience of this grievous war and its aftermath.

About the Author

Su-kyoung Hwang teaches Korean studies at the University of Sydney.

Reviews

"Su-kyoung Hwang offers not just an invaluable work of historical recovery but also a work of relentless moral and scholarly bravery. Based on research ranging from challenging oral histories to deep dives in the National Archives and Korean-language sources, Korea's Grievous War provides an unflinching and harrowing analysis of anticommunist political violence that is heartbreaking and inspiring."
*Christian Appy, author of American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity*