Abstract
This paper demonstrates how the National Assembly in South Korea(hereinafter: NA) started investigation on massacres, which had been committed before and after the Korean War(1950-53), in 1951 and 1960. By analyzing a wide variety of materials — such as press reports, official papers from the NA and the Government, published memoirs from people concerned and documents from the US National Archives and Records Administration(NARA), it also identifies the reason for differences between the both. In each period, the NA established the special committees for investigating the massacres and for assuaging popular sentiment. Although their activities terminated by superficially checking such incidents, in 1951 the one insisted that perpetrators should be punished, in 1960, furthermore, the other asked that some compensations for the victims should be demanded. This difference was due to the social advance of the bereaved family in democratic process after the April Revolution(1960).
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