As part of their occupation program, the American forces facilitated
the rise to power of a number of Koreans who, in the eyes of many
Koreans, had betrayed their countrymen by collaborating withthe
Japanese.The end result was a southern regime that lacked widespread supportfrom the general population.This
lack of legitimacy helped result in aseries of riots,
nation-widestrikes, and outright rebellions - such asthose in Jeju
Island, Yosu,and elsewhere. During this time, over100,000
South Koreans died as a direct result of the military and police forces
of the South Korean regime and US military support.
In an election that was U.N.-sanctioned but widely seen as corrupt, the
American-administered South saw the defeat of a left-wing and popular
group of political leaders that had been active years before the end of
the war. The government that emerged was led by anti-Communist
SyngmanRhee,a Korean who had been imprisoned by the Japanese when a
young man and who had then fled to the United States, where he had
earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgetown, Harvardan
dPrinceton universities.The
South’s left-wing parties boycotted the elections in part to protest
U.S. support for Rhee and its suppression of indigenous political
movements.
引於 Bruce Cumings, ”The Origins of the Korean War.” 一書
作者：Bruce Cumings （歷史學家／Chicago大學教授／東亞及國際關係與現代韓國史研究學者）
historian, and professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. Starting July 1, 2007, he will start a three-year term as Chair of the Department of History．
the rise to power of a number of Koreans who, in the eyes of many
Koreans, had betrayed their countrymen by collaborating withthe
Japanese.The end result was a southern regime that lacked widespread supportfrom the general population.This
lack of legitimacy helped result in aseries of riots,
nation-widestrikes, and outright rebellions - such asthose in Jeju
Island, Yosu,and elsewhere. During this time, over100,000
South Koreans died as a direct result of the military and police forces
of the South Korean regime and US military support.
In an election that was U.N.-sanctioned but widely seen as corrupt, the
American-administered South saw the defeat of a left-wing and popular
group of political leaders that had been active years before the end of
the war. The government that emerged was led by anti-Communist
SyngmanRhee,a Korean who had been imprisoned by the Japanese when a
young man and who had then fled to the United States, where he had
earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgetown, Harvardan
dPrinceton universities.The
South’s left-wing parties boycotted the elections in part to protest
U.S. support for Rhee and its suppression of indigenous political
movements.
引於 Bruce Cumings, ”The Origins of the Korean War.” 一書
作者：Bruce Cumings （歷史學家／Chicago大學教授／東亞及國際關係與現代韓國史研究學者）
historian, and professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. Starting July 1, 2007, he will start a three-year term as Chair of the Department of History．
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