Residents recovered corpses killed by the North Korean People's Army on September 26 and 27, 1950, at a massacre site in Jeonju during the Korean War, on September 29.

Residents recovered corpses killed by the North Korean People's Army on September 26 and 27, 1950 at a massacre site in Jeonju during the Korean War on September 29.

　　The Jeonju Prison, located in Jinbuk-dong, Jeonju City, Jeollabuk-do, housed many leftist thought criminals, including those involved in the 4.3 Incident and the Lushun Incident, when the Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950. They were taken away by Korean soldiers from early to mid-July 1950 and then shot en masse at cemeteries and other locations. The number of victims is estimated at about 1,400, and the perpetrators were soldiers belonging to three regiments of the Korean Army's 7th Division. The inmates were taken to the cemeteries near Jeonju Prison, including Soligaeje and Hwangbangsan, where they were massacred. Immediately after the massacre, on July 20, all personnel from Jeonju Prison withdrew to Daegu.

　Shortly thereafter, the North Korean People's Army occupied Jeonju. The North Korean People's Army confined right-wing officials in the empty Jeonju Prison. According to the First Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (2009), "On September 26 and 27, 1950, more than 1,000 right-wing figures, defined as 'reactionary elements,' were massacred and killed in Jeonju Prison by the 102nd Guard Regiment of the North Korean People's Army, the warden of Jeonju Prison and guards, the Home Ministry and local leftists. During the same period, about 60 people were massacred and killed in a quarry near the Presbyterian Theological Hospital (now Jeonju Jesus Hospital) in Jeonju, in the courtyard air-raid shelter of the official residence of the Wanju county governor, and in an air-raid shelter in front of a Catholic church," according to the report. On July 28, the day after the massacre, the North Korean People's Army burned down the Wanju Prison and withdrew, leaving the corpses behind.

　In a short period of less than three months, more than 2,400 civilians held in Jeonju Prison became victims of massacre after massacre by the ROK and DPRK militaries. The massacres by the ROK military were carried out by mass shootings followed by burial. The massacres by the North Korean People's Army were carried out by beating with pickaxes and shovels in the vicinity of Jeonju Prison. With the exception of 175 bodies, the bereaved families took the bodies. The 175 bodies that could not be recovered were laid to rest in the Hwangbangsan Aikoku Branch Cemetery near the Hwangbangsan massacre site.

　On October 1, 1950, UN forces occupied Jeonju and the Jeonju Prison staff returned to work. Jeonju Prison was burned to the ground and littered with hundreds of bodies that had been gruesomely murdered. The mass civilian casualties in Jeonju broke out intensively between September 26 and 27, 1950, just before the North Korean People's Army withdrew from Jeonju.