[Jeju Update] Jeju reflected in a Guam site 제주, 괌 사이트에 반영됨

* Image source: same as the source
'Pagat, Guam' '패이같, 괌'
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* Michael Lujan Bevacqua in Guam thankfully reflected the story of Gangjeong village with that of Pagat village in Guam in his recent blog. He casts an important question and here I copy part of his as the below.
* 괌의 마이클 루잔 베박쿠아는 고맙게도 그의 최근의 블로그에서 강정 이야기를 괌의 패이같 마을에 반영하고 있읍니다. 중요한 질문을 던졌으며 그의 블로그 일부분을 아래와 같이 복사합니다. 전체 블로그는 여기를 클릭
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Minagahet Chamorro
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Life and Death in Gangjeong


There has been much talk recently over the cultural and historic properties in the Pagat area of Northeastern Guam, and where exactly Pagat begins and ends. Last weekend and this past weekend I went with members of We Are Guahan into the northern section of Pagat to see what artifacts we could find. Although we weren't the first to find them, we found quite a bit of latte and lusong, which I'm sure I'll be writing about very soon on this blog.

The issue of historic relics and cultural artifacts reminds me of the current situation in Gangjeong Village, on Jeju Island in South Korea. Although the villager of Gangjeong have been fiercely resisting the creation of a military dock there which will be used by both US and South Korean Navy forces, the construction and hence the destruction of parts of the coast and the land in Gangjeong have already begun.

As usual, the blog where you can find the most update to date info on this (which is graciously translated into English by the author) is No Base Stories of Korea, which is where I found the video below, as well as a poem which was written recently by the son of a Gangjeong Villager describing his anguish over what is happening on their coast.

Whenever large military projects are undertaken, whether it be a Naval Base in Jeju or a firing range near Pagat, there are a number of important and obvious questions which are sadly rarely ever asked, usually because of some vague, abstract and more wishful than anything hope for some economic boost or boom. In the case of Gangjeong, while I was there last year, one simple question which every villager asked but which no one wanted to answer, was why use such rich and fertile land to build a base? The area where this Navy base will be built is so abundant in water that the villagers say it was the first place where their ancestors were able to plant rice. Why would you want to use something which can be so important in providing life, to create a place which is so invested in death? For those who have been paying attention, while few are claiming that Pagat is rich agricultural lands, the similarity should still be clear.

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