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The Gwangju Uprising, known in Korean as May 18 (Korean: 오일팔; Hanja: 五一八; RR: Oilpal; lit. Five One Eight), were student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980. The uprising was in response to the coup d'état of May Seventeenth that installed Chun Doo-hwan as military dictator and the implementation ...
Gwangju Uprising, mass protest against the South Korean military government that took place in the southern city of Gwangju between May 18 and 27, 1980. It is considered to have been a pivotal moment in the South Korean struggle for democracy.
Special Exhibition for the 40th Anniversary of the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement.
17 maj 2016 · 5.18 민주화 운동 Today marks the 36th anniversary of the May 18th pro-democracy movement,... a day as important now for Korea as it was more than three-and-a-half decades ago. The movement ...
Based on the May 18 special law, the government established the organizations such as the ‘Past History Settlement Committee’ and ‘National Human Rights Commission of Korea’ and revealed the facts on the violent actions committed at past times by the national power and military dictatorship such as the April 3 Jeju revolution, cases ...
2 lut 2020 · The Deobureo Minjoo Party demanded the Liberty Korea Party expel the three lawmakers and apologize for the “anti-history and anti-democracy ludicrous statements.” Instead of defending their lawmakers and freedom of speech, the Liberty Korea Party took disciplinary actions.
Forty years after the people’s uprising and state massacre took place in Gwangju during the spring month of May 1980, what is now widely known as “5.18” remains a contested history.
