Gwangju Uprising

On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d''�tat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds of students, activists and citizens were arrested, tortured and murdered. The events of the uprising shaped over a decade of resistance to the re...