A dicussion about protests that occured in Kwangju, South Korea after the infamous 1980 Kwangju uprising (also known as the May 18 Democratic Uprising). In the 1980, Kwangju residents protested the largely dictatorial actions of the South Korean Army major general Chun Doo-hwan, who had led a Coup d'etat after the previous authoritarian president had been assinated
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Anonymous, "NYTimes 1986 Protest in Kwangju", contributed by Danielle Yorleny Tassara, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 13 December 2019, accessed 27 January 2025. http://centerforethnography.org/content/nytimes-1986-protest-kwangju
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A dicussion about protests that occured in Kwangju, South Korea after the infamous 1980 Kwangju uprising (also known as the May 18 Democratic Uprising). In the 1980, Kwangju residents protested the largely dictatorial actions of the South Korean Army major general Chun Doo-hwan, who had led a Coup d'etat after the previous authoritarian president had been assinated