The Gwangju Uprising: The Pivotal Democratic Movement That Changed the History of Modern Korea by Chong-Un Choe, Chong-Un Ch'oe

The Gwangju Uprising: The Pivotal Democratic Movement That Changed the History of Modern Korea

Chong-Un Choe, Chong-Un Ch'oe

352 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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The book explores the implications of the democratic movement that took place in Gwangju, a southwestern city of Korea, in May 1980 when military paratroopers brutally crushed a group of protesters who demonstrated against General Chun Doo-hwan, w...

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