Hyun Ki-young speaks in a press conference in Seoul, on June 29. (Yonhap)Jeju-born writer Hyun Ki-young said he penned his three-volume novel, 'Oh, Jejudo,' as an homage to the spirits of the April 3 Incident.On April 3, 1948, when Hyun was 6 years old, Jeju islanders began protesting against US military-led rule after Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule (1910-1945). The then-government distorted the uprising as a communist riot and brutally massacred an estimated 30,000 civilians, roughly 10 percent of the island's population, in the years of armed crackdowns that followed.

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