Nan Kim is Associate Profess or in the Department of History at UW-Milwaukee\, where she is the Director of Public History and the Co-Coordinator of Asian Studies. She is the aut hor of Memory\, Reconciliation\, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing t he Divide\, and her work has appeared in The Journal of Asian Studi es\, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus\, and The Routledge Han dbook on Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia. She serves on the edi torial boards of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History and The Seoul Journal of Korean Studies. A native to New York City\, Dr. Kim received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Califo rnia\, Berkeley\, and her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Prin ceton University. This presentation considers ongoing historical debates an d developments in memory politics highlighted by the 70-year milestone sinc e the 1948 Jeju Uprising\, while also tracing past efforts that brought sup pressed Jeju 4.3 historical memory into greater public awareness during rec ent decades. Recognizing how greater visibility of traumatic historical eve nts can also bring about new kinds of risks\, this talk challenges an uncri tical embrace of “dark tourism” with respect to massacre-related memorial s ites on Jeju Island and elsewhere in the world. Framing Jeju’s history of s tate-led touristic development by South Korea’s past military-authoritarian regimes as integral to the censoring and historical erasure of Jeju 4.3 th at had prevailed during much of the late 20th century\, this talk argues th at the island is uniquely positioned to draw into question the larger disco urse that regards as a form of tourism the visitations of sites associated with intense historical trauma.