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In recent studies on the history of the Korean War, the background and causes of the large-scale civilian massacres were investigated and yielded some results. Most of the studies tend to emphasize the local conflicts between status or classes in the area, inter-family conflicts, inter-village conflicts, conflicts relating to religions and ideological stance, and conflicts caused by local intellectual leaders, especially landlords. However, those micro studies of village units lacked a broader perspective to link the Korean War and local politics at county level and failed to understand the relationship. A central theme of this study on local history is to find out how the county politics influenced upon the war in the regions, especially how the local pre-war and post-war “democratic villages”(民主部落) affected the local county politics. As a conclusion, I suggested that in understanding the background and causes of the civilian massacres, it should be also acknowledged that local political (democratic) experiences and capabilities which had grown gradually during the colonial period contributed to the causes of the massacre as well as local inter-class, inter-family, and inter-village conflicts.
