• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I will never forget the first time I read about Jeju Island. That and the Tlatelolco massacre genuinely left me reeling.

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      South Korean history from the immediate post-WW2 period through to the 1980s is completely ignored in the western world. Syngman Rhee in particular was a true villain.