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On Jeju, Korea’s island of ghosts, the dead finally find a voice

Go Wan-soon won’t forget the day the soldiers came.  Then nine years old, she was sitting in her home in the seaside village of Bukchon  when troops burst in. Go, her mother and three-year-old brother were herded outside at bayonet point. Houses were going up in flames. They were dragged to the yard of the elementary school, which was ringed […]

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