The Gwangju Uprising, also known in South Korea as May 18 (Korean: 오일팔; Hanja: 五一八; RR: Oilpal; lit. Five One Eight), was a series of student-led demonstrations...

crackdown, resulting in the Gwangju Uprising, where civilians raided armories and armed themselves. By the time the uprising was suppressed 9 days later...

from Seoul who unintentionally becomes involved in the events of the Gwangju Uprising in 1980. It is based on German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter's interactions...

declaring martial law to subdue the National Assembly and suppress the Gwangju Uprising. The conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court in April of the following...

uprising that occurred on 18 May 1980, in Gwangju, Korea. In the novel, one boy's death provides the impetus for a dimensional look into the Gwangju Uprising...

the Gwangju uprising in South Korea in 1980. His footage was delivered to Germany and broadcast worldwide. He reported about the student uprising and...

brought Chun to power, and supported Chun's violent crackdown of the Gwangju Uprising in 1980. Retiring from the army a year later, he held a series of ministerial...

organization related to Gwangju Uprising victims said there was no such apology. He requested the jurisdictional transfer of his case from Gwangju District Court...

Gwangju City may refer to: Gwangju, the capital city of South Jeolla Province, South Korea Gwangju Uprising, 1980 Gwangju City (Gyeonggi), a city in Gyeonggi...

Neoliberalism and the Gwangju Uprising Bruce Cumings in Lee Jai-Eui, Gwangju Diary. University of California, 1999. p. 27 quoted in The Gwangju Uprising. Ed. Henry...

Revolutionary Party Incident Gwangju Uprising June Democratic Uprising Kim Young-sam October Yushin "부마민주항쟁이란?(What is Busan–Masan Uprising?)". 부마민주항쟁 진상규명 및 관련자...

Hyun-jung, and Park Sang-won into stardom. Its reenactment of the Gwangju Uprising (interspersed with archival video footage) has been called one of the...

protest. His actions inspired others to do the same. The May 1980 Gwangju Uprising was the first step towards democracy in South Korea. Although the movement...

after a series of democratic movements, including the Gwangju uprising and the June Democratic Uprising. It is the fifth installment of the Republic series...

considered to be a "social ill". This included participants of the notable Gwangju Uprising. Within a span of six months, more than 40,000 people, many of whom...

streaming on its platform. Youth of May is set in the year 1980 during the Gwangju Uprising, follows the love story of medical student Hwang Hee-tae (Lee Do-hyun)...

faced growing opposition from the democratization movement of the Gwangju Uprising, and the June Democracy Movement of 1987 resulted in the election of...

Grand Bell Awards Nomination – Best Supporting Actor – Park Chul-min Gwangju Uprising "Hwaryeohan Hyuga (May 18) (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2014-02-07...

December Twelfth in December 1979, and began the armed suppression of the Gwangju Uprising against martial law. Chun launched the coup d'état of May Seventeenth...

which violently seized power by two coups and brutally suppressed the Gwangju Uprising. The June Democratic Struggle of 1987 ended authoritarian rule, forming...

apprehended on charges of instigating social unrest. The following day, the Gwangju Uprising began with students calling for the opening of university and democratization...

Doo-hwan's dictatorship in the aftermath of the remembered May 18, 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Student radicalism had become particularly widespread in the years...

Bachelor of Laws in 1983 and a Master of Laws in 1988. Shortly after the Gwangju Uprising, Yoon and his colleagues held a mock trial where he acted as a prosecutor...

Protests against martial law were also organized in Gwangju, where memories of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and subsequent crackdown remain fresh. On 5 December...

Sang-won and labor activist Park Ki-soon, who were killed during the Gwangju Uprising in 1980. The original author of the lyrics is Paik Ki-wan, and the...

the coup of the civilian government on 17 May 1980, alongside the Gwangju Uprising, was the primary justification for Chun's 1995 arrest by the Kim Young-sam...

Kwangju uprising, South Korea: A Country Study (in Korean) "May 18th Pro-Democracy Movement" at Doosan Encyclopedia. Originally called Gwangju Uprising, the...

student protests were escalating in Seoul and Gwangju. The protests in Gwangju resulted in the Gwangju uprising in which about 987 civilians were killed within...

in the Gwangju Uprising. Built by the government of South Korea in 1997, it is located in Gwangju. Every May, on the anniversary of the uprising, it is...

medications until they were well. On December 9, 1980, in Gwangju, arsonists protesting the Gwangju massacre, burned the American Cultural Center (ko). On...