1980 Pro-Democracy Uprising in Gwangju, South Korea
I was only a kid when this happened, but I remember seeing the turmoil whenever my mother (who is Korean) turned on international news reports. I see echoes of this in what is happening in Hong Kong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising
The Gwangju Uprising (Korean: 광주 민주화 항쟁; Hanja: 光州民主化抗爭
, alternatively called the May 18 Democratic Uprising by UNESCO,[2] and also known as May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement[3] (Korean: 5·18 광주 민주화 운동; Hanja: 五一八光州民主化運動 , was a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju, South Korea, from May 18 to 27, 1980. Estimates suggest that up to 606 people may have died.[4] During this period, Gwangju citizens took up arms (by robbing local armories and police stations) when local Chonnam University students who were demonstrating against the martial law government were fired upon, killed, raped and beaten by government troops.[5][6][7] The uprising ended on May 27, 1980.
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