By SUSAN CHIRA, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: June 21, 1987     LEAD: Demonstrations continued unabated today in this southwestern city, as protests across the coun...

2008-10-23 

Reviewed by Luc WalhainBowling Green State University   As a reflection of the democratisation of South Korean society and the prevailing détente between the two Koreas, South Koreans have been ...

2008-10-22 

  Democracy Now’s Juan Gonzalez looks back at the 1980 pro-democracy uprising that ended when South Korean soldiers opened fire. The official body count was 500. Some human rights groups have estimated the ...

2008-10-21 

Journal Article Excerpt The Kwangju Uprising and Poetry byKo Chong-hui, a Writer of South Cholla   In this essay, the author translates and interprets the poetry of Chong-hui, examining especially her trea...

2008-10-20 

 By Bradley WintertonTaipei TimesSunday, May 13, 2001, Page 24 The name of the city Kwangju haunts Korea with memories of the wholesale slaughter of democracy protesters in 1980   It has become a clich...

2008-10-20 

ByYung Soo Kim & James D. Kelly Abstract A content analysis of 80 news photographs published in the New York Times and theWashington Post revealed little difference between visual coverage of two pro-democr...

2008-10-20 

  By Donald G. Sohn1998     ABSTRACT   Many scholars and journalists point to the tragic events that occurred in the Kwangju Popular Uprising as a pronounced materialization of the dependent n...

2008-10-17 

The following are articles from TIME Magazine that appeared in 1980.         Season of Spleen Monday, Jun. 02, 1980Outright insurrection raises alarm about an invaluable Pacific ally Lift martial law! ...

2008-10-17 

As a cameraman for German TV Jürgen Hinzpeter captured grim images of a massacre and ensured that the world learned what happened. Jürgen Hinzpeter (born 6 July 1937) is something of a local celebrity in...

2008-10-17 

Jurgen Hinzpeter was born on July 6, 1937. He first became a cameraman at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR Hamburg TV in 1963. At the beginning of 1967 he was sent to the television studio in Hong Kong,...

2008-10-17