75Th Commemorating the Victims of the Jeju April 3 Incident

Date and Time:

Thursday, April 6, 6 pm

followed by a reception at 7 pm.

Location

7th floor, Cabot Intercultural Center, Tufts Fletcher School

160 Packard Ave., Medford, MA

Host: Jeju 4.3 Memorial and Families Association of the U.S.

Support organizer: Jeju 4·3 International Network for Truth and Justice, Memorial Committee for the Jeju April 3rd Uprising and Massacre, Fletcher School North Korea Working Group

Sponsor: Jeju Special Self-Governing Province

RSVP: info@waldenkorea.org

Tel) 617-849-8433

The Boston-based Jeju 4.3 Memorial and Families Association of the U.S. strives to raise awareness on the tragic historical event known as the Jeju Massacre, urge the United States to uncover the truth and issue an apology, prevent future generations from repeating the same mistakes, and contribute to the development of a society that respects and protects justice, human rights, and peace.

The Jeju 4.3 Incident, a tragedy in modern Korean history, resulted in the killings of 30,000 people by the military and police during seven years and seven months of unrest from March 1947 until September 1954. Some scholars consider the Jeju 4.3 Incident as the starting point of the Cold War in Northeast Asia. In 2021, South Korea’s ruling and opposition parties passed the amendment to the Jeju 4.3 Special Act, making some progress in restoring the honor of the victims. However, the bereaved families of the Jeju 4.3 victims still face a challenging path amid ideological conflicts.

The U.S. military government, which held operational control of the Korean military during the most intense period of the crackdown,1948-1949, provided weapons to the Korean military and was directly and indirectly involved in the slaughter of Jeju residents, branding them as communists. In December 2022, our organization held the Jeju 4.3 Conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a U.S. Congressional think tank, and visited the U.S. Congress to urge them to uncover the truth about the Jeju 4.3 Incident.

Each year, the Commemoration of the Victims of the Jeju April 3 Incident is held on April 3 in Jeju, Korea. This date is the official memorial day of the Republic of Korea's government. It has now been 75 years since the Jeju 4.3 Incident.

In the United States, the Jeju 4.3 Victims Memorial Ceremony officially began last year. We invite you to attend this event to commemorate the victims of the Jeju 4.3 Incident and strengthen our bonds of friendship in the name of human rights that transcend ideology. A reception will follow the event from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.

Lecture : Slavoj Žižek "Are There Still Masters or Are There Only Servants of Servants?"

Walden Korea Lecture Series

International School of Philosophy in Asia (ISPA)

Slavoj Žižek "Are There Still Masters or Are There Only Servants of Servants?"

10 am (EST-U.S & Canada), Wed, December 21

Webinar Lecture

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86835446597?pwd=WnpZSFgyc3c2Zkc2elhHajhYL04xZz09

Meeting ID: 868 3544 6597

Passcode: 4343

All are welcome to join by video or audio

Dr. Žižek will take questions from audience

Email: info@waldenkorea.org

Host: Walden Korea

Sponsor: Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation

The Walden Korea Lecture Series aims to bring together preeminent scholars and intellectuals to address the most salient issues of the day. The development of global mobility that facilitated the “Global Value Chain” has transformed the regions of Asia and beyond into large-scale factories and shaped global capitalism in the 21st century. Widespread mass industrialization has precipitated the rise of metropolia and accelerated environmental crises and climate change. The economic subsumption of these regions to the global market has brought profound changes and shackled the distinct immanence of the locals to the norms of the monetary regime. Asia is no longer a particular region but instead the place of universal subject matter: global capitalism. For this reason, the lecture series posits Asia as a means to bring forth the potential conceptualization of planetary philosophy. The progress of technology increasingly separates our sense of certainty from concrete spatio-temporal experiences and imposes algorithmic intelligence upon our way of thinking. From coal and oil to electricity, the forms of energy for the sustainability of this vulnerable civilization stifles the infinity of today’s imagination. It obstructs the new idea of another future. However, the idea of the future is always related to a breakthrough in the present, and the virtual alternation is already internalized within today’s reality. From this perspective, the Walden Korea Lecture Series, an initial program of the International School of Philosophy in Asia, invites all interested in thoughts challenging the normative perception of today’s world and a search for an alternative method to the current knowledge systems.

The Walden Korea Lecture Series is the inaugural program in the launch of the International School of Philosophy in Asia (ISPA). The Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation funds the series. The first lecture will be delivered by Slavoj Žižek, a renowned Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy.

U.S.-Korea Relations: Retrospective on the Jeju April 3 Incident, Human Rights, and Alliance

Retrospective on the Jeju 4.3 Incident, Human Rights, and Alliance

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Korea Center hosts, in cooperation with Walden Korea and The Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation, a featured conference entitled U.S.-Korea Relations: Retrospective on the Jeju April 3 Incident, Human Rights, and Alliance. The conference will bring together U.S. and South Korean scholars and experts to address various facts and controversies related to unresolved history, truth, justice, and reconciliation in the context of the U.S.-Republic of Korea alliance.

Registration

INTRODUCTIONS

Sue Mi Terry Director of the Asia Program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

Ko Hee-bum

Chairman, The Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation

PANELISTS

Kathleen Stephens

President and CEO, The Korea Economic Institute of America; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

Sung-Yoon Lee

Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Suyeon Yang

Chairwoman, Walden Korea; Chairwoman, Jeju 4.3 Memorial and Families Association of the U.S.

Jo-hoon Yang

Member, The National Committee for Investigation of the Truth about the Jeju 4.3 Incident

John Merrill

Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University; Former Chief of the Northeast Asia Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State

Hojun Huh

Head of Research, The Jeju 4.3 Research Institute

Charles Kraus

Charles Kraus is the Deputy Director of the History and Public Policy Program at the Wilson Center.

Bruce Cumings (invited)

Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago

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Agenda

12:30pm – 12:45pm ET

Welcome Remarks

Dr. Sue Mi Terry Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy, Wilson Center Mr. Ko Hee-bum Chairman, The Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation

12:45pm – 02:15pm ET

Panel I

Moderator Dr. Sue Mi Terry Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy, Wilson Center

Panelists

Amb. Kathleen Stephens President and CEO, The Korea Economic Institute of America; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Ms. Suyeon Yang Chairwoman, Walden Korea; Chairwoman, Jeju 4.3 Memorial and Families Association of the U.S.

Mr. Jo-hoon Yang Member, The National Committee for Investigation of the Truth about the Jeju 4.3 Incident

Discussion and Q&A

02:15pm – 02:25pm ET

Coffee Break Coffee and light refreshments will be provided

02:25pm – 03:55pm ET

Panel II

Moderator Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Panelists Dr. John Merrill Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University; Former Chief of the Northeast Asia Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State

Dr. Hojun Huh Head of Research, The Jeju 4.3 Research Institute

Dr. Charles Kraus Deputy Director, History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center

Dr. Bruce Cumings (invited) Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago

Discussion and Q&A

03:55pm – 04:30pm ET

Reception Reception location TBC.

04:30pm – 04:30pm ET

Adjournment Thank you for attending

04:30pm – 06:00pm ET

Private Roundtable: U.S.-South Korea Dialogue (By-invitation-only)

Ms. Jae-Jung Lee, Member of the ROK National Assembly Mr. Han-kyu Kim, Member of the ROK National Assembly

Co-Moderators: Dr. Sue Mi Terry and Dr. Chung-In Moon

Registration