The Kwangju Uprising: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press (Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute)

by Lily Xiao Hong Lee (Author), HenryScottStokes (Author)

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  In Kwangju, South Korea, in 1980 a student uprising ended in the brutal suppression and massacre of protestors, an event burned into the minds of all South Koreans. This text presents original South Korean accounts of the incident, along with the reports of Western journalists who witnessed events.