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THE GWANGJU UPRISING The Pivotal Democratic Movement That Changed the History of Modern Korea
- Genre : How-To, Business
- Author : CHOI Jung-woon
- Publisher : Pulbit Publishing Co.
- Pub.Year : 1999
- Pages : 326
- Format : 148 X 210 mm
- ISBN :
 
explores the implications of the May 18th, 1980, Gwangju Democratic Uprising. The author maintains that those implications are much more profound than the fact that so many civilians and students were killed or wounded. The May 18th Uprising was not a single incident in the course of modern Korean political history; it was a climatic incident that helped rewrite the nation’s history. The author’s discussion of the May 18th Uprising compels Koreans to take a look at their lives within the context of Korean history. The author argues that the uprising re-aligned social and human relationships in Korean society and indeed awakened the Korean soul.