Jeju 4.3 Peace Park (Korean: 제주4·3평화공원) is a memorial park and museum in Bonggae-dong, Jeju City, Jeju Province, South Korea. It commemorates the victims of the 1948–1949 Jeju uprising.
Description
In June 1999, President Kim Dae-jung pledged to support the construction of a memorial park to the Jeju uprising. After a January 2000 act issued by the Jeju 4.3 Committee, efforts began to construct the park. Designs were finalized in June 2001, and the land purchase was completed in 2002. A groundbreaking ceremony began on April 3, 2003. Infrastructure was completed in November 2005. The Peace Park opened on March 28, 2008.
The park consists of a park and a museum to the uprising. Each year on April 3, there is a memorial service held in honor of the dead.
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References
External links
- Yoon Min-sik (29 March 2018), "Jeju remembers", The Korea Herald, retrieved 30 June 2019
- Jeju April 3 Peace Park, Lonely Planet, retrieved 30 June 2019
