The Gwangju Uprising

Author : Hwang Sok-yong,Lee Jae-Eui,Jeon Yong-Ho
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788737166

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Gwangju Uprising by Hwang Sok-yong,Lee Jae-Eui,Jeon Yong-Ho Pdf

The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion On May 18, 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d’état and the martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence. 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 repressive South Korean regime and paved the way for the country’s democratization. This fresh translation by Slin Jung of a text compiled from eyewitness testimonies presents a gripping and comprehensive account of both the events of the uprising and the political situation that preceded and followed the violence of that period. Included is a preface by acclaimed Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong. Gwangju Uprising is a vital resource for those interested in East Asian contemporary history and the global struggle for democracy.

Author : Chŏng-un Ch'oe
Publisher : Homa & Sekey Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Korea (South)
ISBN : 9781931907293

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The Gwangju Uprising by Chŏng-un Ch'oe Pdf

This book explores the implications of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising, which took place in May 1980 when paratroopers brutally broke up a group of protesters who demonstrated against General Chun Doohwan's acceptance of the Korean presidency. People who lived in the Gwangju and South Jeolla provinces fought the paratroopers, insisting that martial law be abolished. During the event now known as the Gwangju Uprising, 191 people perished and 852 were wounded. Here, Choi Jung-woon explores the ramifications of this pivotal day in Korea's modern history on the country's society, economy and politics. Rather than give a traditional historical narrative of the event, he gives an indepth analysis of the participants' mentalities and incentives, and the type of the brutality involved in the uprising. He also examines the stages the participants went through during the uprising, from the calm and togetherness they felt before the event, to the uprising's turmoil and then a return to peace after the event. The author analyzes various discourses related to the uprising, looking into the ideological underpinnings of those who commented on the uprising. labor movements and political relationships in Korea.

Author : Georgy Katsiaficas,Na Kahn-chae
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136759239

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South Korean Democracy by Georgy Katsiaficas,Na Kahn-chae Pdf

This new book offers a retrospective appraisal of the Gwangju Uprising by academics, activists and artists from Gwangju, Korea. It analyzes the events of the Gwangju uprising, and traces the birth of South Korean democracy in Gwangju’s stubborn refusal to accept life without freedom.

Author : Henry Scott Stokes,Lily Xiao Hong Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315291758

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The Kwangju Uprising: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press by Henry Scott Stokes,Lily Xiao Hong Lee Pdf

The Kwangju Uprising that occurred in May 1980 is burned into the minds of South Koreans in much the same way that Tiananmen is burned into the minds of contemporary Chinese. As the world watched in horror following the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, student protesters were brutally suppressed by the military and police led by strongman Chun Doo Hwan. Kim Dae Jung, the current president of South Korea, was imprisoned and sentenced to death during this period. This book recreates those earth-shaking events through eyewitness reports of leading Western correspondents on the scene as well as Korean participants and observers. Photographs, detailed street maps, and dramatic woodblock prints further illuminate the day-to-day drama to keep this atrocity alive in the conscience of the world.

Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Kyung Moon Hwang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0742519627

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Contentious Kwangju by Gi-Wook Shin,Kyung Moon Hwang Pdf

One of the largest political protests in contemporary Korean history, the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound, often contested, influence in Korean society. Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis, Contentious Kwangju offers a comprehensive examination of the multiple, shifting meanings of this seminal event and explains how the memory of Kwangju has affected Korean life from politics to culture. In keeping with the book's title, the essays offer competing interpretations of the Kwangju Uprising, yet together provide the most thorough English-language treatment to date of the multifaceted, sweeping significance of this seminal event.

Author : Han Kang
Publisher : Portobello Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783781621

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Human Acts by Han Kang Pdf

Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance.

Author : Paul Courtright
Publisher : Hollym
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781565914971

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Witnessing Gwangju by Paul Courtright Pdf

As a young Peace Corps volunteer, working with leprosy patients in rural South Korea in 1980, Paul Courtright got caught in the middle of a brutal military suppression in Gwangju. Over a span of 13 days, he witnessed the unfolding Gwangju Uprising, during which he was trapped in the city, ringed by the military. The residents of the city rallied to create their own government and militia and Paul and his colleagues translated for a few foreign reporters and photographers who managed to get into Gwangju. Paul’s first attempt to get out, to get to Seoul and inform the US Embassy as to the true nature of events in Gwangju, failed. His second attempt, over the hills to his village and then to Seoul, was successful, but harrowing. This memoir is the first by a foreign witness to the Gwangju Uprising. It is both a clear-eyed record of the events and a reflection of Paul’s emotional journey as the uprising went through its various twists and turns.

Author : Jai-eui Lee
Publisher : UCLA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015022888997

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Kwangju Diary by Jai-eui Lee Pdf

Author : George Katsiaficas
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604867213

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Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 1 by George Katsiaficas Pdf

Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned that country’s politics and society. From the 1894 Tonghak Uprising through the March 1, 1919, independence movement and anti-Japanese resistance, a direct line is traced to the popular opposition to U.S. division of Korea after World War Two. The overthrow of Syngman Rhee in 1960, resistance to Park Chung-hee, the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, as well as student, labor, and feminist movements are all recounted with attention to their economic and political contexts. South Korean opposition to neoliberalism is portrayed in detail, as is an analysis of neoliberalism’s rise and effects. With a central focus on the Gwangju Uprising (that ultimately proved decisive in South Korea’s democratization), the author uses Korean experiences as a baseboard to extrapolate into the possibilities of global social movements in the 21st century. Previous English-language sources have emphasized leaders—whether Korean, Japanese, or American. This book emphasizes grassroots crystallization of counter-elite dynamics and notes how the intelligence of ordinary people surpasses that of political and economic leaders holding the reins of power. It is the first volume in a two-part study that concludes by analyzing in rich detail uprisings in nine other places: the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia. Richly illustrated, with tables, charts, graphs, index, and endnotes.

Author : Yŏn-min Kim,Robert Grotjohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Kwangju Uprising, Kwangju-si, Korea, 1980
ISBN : 8968499535

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Selected Oral Histories of the May 18 Gwangju Uprising by Yŏn-min Kim,Robert Grotjohn Pdf

Author : Namhee Lee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801461699

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The Making of Minjung by Namhee Lee Pdf

In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the nation's "failed history" left Korean identity profoundly incomplete. The Making of Minjung captures the movement in its many dimensions, presenting its intellectual trajectory as a discourse and its impact as a political movement, as well as raising questions about how intellectuals represented the minjung. Lee's portrait is based on a wide range of sources: underground pamphlets, diaries, court documents, contemporary newspaper reports, and interviews with participants. Thousands of students and intellectuals left universities during this period and became factory workers, forging an intellectual-labor alliance perhaps unique in world history. At the same time, minjung cultural activists reinvigorated traditional folk theater, created a new "minjung literature," and influenced religious practices and academic disciplines. In its transformative scope, the minjung phenomenon is comparable to better-known contemporaneous movements in South Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Understanding the minjung movement is essential to understanding South Korea's recent resistance to U.S. influence. Along with its well-known economic transformation, South Korea has also had a profound social and political transformation. The minjung movement drove this transformation, and this book tells its story comprehensively and critically.

Author : David Lee Dolinger,Matt VanVolkenburg
Publisher : Goggas
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798985606997

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Called by Another Name by David Lee Dolinger,Matt VanVolkenburg Pdf

A Young American who joined Peace Corps Volunteer walked into the turmoil of Korean historyAfter graduating from university, David was unsure about what he wanted to do with his life, but he knew for certain that whatever he did, he wanted his efforts to help make a positive change in the world. This led him to join the Peace Corps. David was accepted and choose to go to South Korea. After arriving in 1978, he underwent training to learn the Korean language and culture. As he began his training, he was bestowed with a Korean name, Im Dae-oon, which was the name that he used throughout his time in Korea. He was assigned to serve as a tuberculosis worker in Yeongam, a town in Korea's southwest, and as he learned more about Korea, he came to fall in love with the country's food, scenery, and people. On May 18, 1980, David was on his way home to Yeongam from another Peace Corps volunteer's wedding ceremony when he arrived in Gwangju to transfer buses. As the bus pulled into the terminal, however, he could smell tear gas and immediately knew that something terrible was happening. Learning that a curfew had been imposed, preventing him from going home, David went downtown and encountered Tim Warnberg, a friend and fellow Peace Corps volunteer. Tim told him that a protest against martial law had occurred and that government troops were inflicting brutal violence against any young people seen in the streets. Assuming that Korean soldiers would not attack an American, Tim had courageously placed himself between the soldiers and their intended victims to prevent Koreans from getting seriously hurt. Luckily, David was able to make it back to Yeongam, but he continued to worry for Tim and his Korean friends. In the following days, he heard that the violence was getting worse, and then discovered that the phone lines to Gwangju had been cut. He set out for the city to check on his friends, he did not know he was walking into the turmoil of Korean history.

Author : Linda S. Lewis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824824792

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Laying Claim to the Memory of May by Linda S. Lewis Pdf

The Kwangju Uprising--"Korea's Tiananmen"--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people's revolt. In the two decades since, memories of the Kwangju Uprising have lived on, assuming symbolic importance in the Korean democracy movement, underlying the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and shaping the nation's transition to a civil society. Nonetheless it remains a contested event, the subject still of controversy, confusion, international debate, and competing claims. As one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the Uprising, Linda Lewis is uniquely positioned to write about the event. In this innovative work on commemoration politics, social representation, and memory, Lewis draws on her fieldwork notes from May 1980, writings from the 1980s, and ethnographic research she conducted in the late 1990s on the memorialization of Kwangju and its relationship to changes in the national political culture. Throughout, the chronological organization of the text is crisscrossed with commentary that provocatively disrupts the narrative flow and engages the reader in the reflexive process of remembering Kwangju over two decades. Highly original in its method and approach, Laying Claim to the Memory of May situates this seminal event in a broad historical and scholarly context. The result is not only the definitive history of the Kwangju Uprising, but also a sweeping overview of Korean studies over the last few decades.

Author : HaeRan Shin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429516139

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The Cultural Politics of Urban Development in South Korea by HaeRan Shin Pdf

This book analyses the cultural politics of urban development in Gwangju, South Korea, and illustrates the implementation of state-led arts-based urban boosterism efforts in the context of political trauma and the desire for economic growth. The book explores urban development that is complicated by the recent history of democratic uprising in Gwangju, and it examines the dichotomy between cities as growth machines and progressive metropolises. Actor-oriented qualitative research methods are used to show how culture and economies can evolve from territorial conflicts. The author argues that the quest for both growth and social justice can coexist in intertwined ways and create urban development. Moreover, recent events in Gwangju, such as the May 18 Democratic Uprising and massacre, are shown to act as a backdrop for state-led urban boosterism and desire for economic growth at the same time as depicting a resistance to state-corporate marketing plans, which culminates in the eventual emergence of relatively coherent places-of-memory. These convergences and divergences are comparable to the urban boosterism characteristic of Western cities. The book contributes to the dialogue surrounding geography, urban studies, and postcolonial urban development, and will be of interest to academics working in these fields as well as human geography, planning, urban politics and East Asian studies.

Author : Donald N Clark
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822003226537

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The Kwangju Uprising by Donald N Clark Pdf

"The Kwangju Uprising of May 1980 began as a protest against Chun Doo Hwan's emerging military rule and grew into a full-scale popular rebellion that included people from all strata of society. When Black Beret paratroopers were dispatched to break up the early protests, public outrage forced them to withdraw. Chun, by pulling regular army troops from the Seoul area, was able to re-invade the city and crush the revolt. estimates of deaths range from 191 to over 2,000. Chun and his generals continue to blame the event on "impure elements" and communist influence, but Korean citizens have never forgiven them for using guns on their own people. Chun's political legitimacy has been crippled by Kwangju, and the opposition has used it effectively as a rallying point. U.S. policy also has been affected, for Koreans remember that the troops Chun used to crush the Kwangju uprising were part of the U.S.-Korean joint defense structure technically under the command of the U.S. general in Seoul. U.S. acquiescence in the use of military force in Kwangju has stimulated rising anti-Americanism in South Korea and poses problems for the future of the alliance. This interdisciplinary study is the first to present a balanced view of this emotion-laden event and its continuing impact on Korean politics. The book includes an eyewitness account by an anthropologist, a literary assessment, and a historian's analysis of recent interviews with the two top U.S. officials on the scene, Ambassador William Gleysteen and General John A. Wixckham."--