BUSAN, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –A young student in Busan has become the target of online abuse after being lauded for exposing a misleading video game that distorted the 1980 pro-democracy uprising in the city of Gwangju, prompting a police investigation. The Yeonje Police Station in Busan said on June 3 that it was investigating [...]
GWANGJU, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Terry Anderson, a former Associated Press correspondent who risked his life to report on the Gwangju Democratic Uprising in South Korea in 1980, exposing the brutal crackdown to the world, died on April 21 in Greenwood Lake, N.Y. He was 76. According to the Journalists Association of Korea’s May 18 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Late former President Chun Doo-hwan described a military document recommending a crackdown on the 1980 pro-democracy uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju as a “good idea,” a fact-finding panel said Monday. Marking the second anniversary of its launch, the May 18 Democratization Movement Truth Commission released interim results [...]
GWANGJU, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A new international video press award has been created in honor of late German journalist Jurgen Hinzpeter, the first western reporter to send out footage of the bloody crackdown on the Gwangju people’s pro-democracy uprising of May 1980, its organizers said Thursday. The May 18 Memorial Foundation and the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Soldiers killed during operations to quell a pro-democracy uprising in 1980 have been relabeled as dead on duty from the previous designation of war dead, the defense ministry said Tuesday, amid efforts to set the record straight on the historic revolt. On May 18, 1980, the military junta, led [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — To this day, the Gwangju Democratization Movement of May 18, 1980, against the then-brutal military dictatorship invokes in the hearts of many South Koreans emotions of horror and deep sorrow, as well as a profound respect toward hope for democracy. The movement, which ended with hundreds of people killed [...]
GWANGJU, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The remains of about 40 people have been discovered at the site of a former prison in the southwestern city of Gwangju, the government said Friday, with some claiming that they may belong to victims of crackdowns during the pro-democracy movement in the 1980s. The remains were uncovered Thursday [...]
GWANGJU, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A late taxi driver, well known for taking German journalist Jurgen Hinzpeter to the center of a pro-democracy uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju decades ago, will be buried next to the reporter’s monument at a cemetery in the city, the municipal government said Monday. The driver, Kim [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Students of Chonnam National University, located in Gwangju, rallied in front of their president’s office on Sept. 6 in disapproval of the visitor that day – U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris. About a dozen CNU students, including some members of the student council, gathered around the university’s main hall [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said Friday that those distorting what happened during the bloody crackdown on a 1980 pro-democracy uprising will face the “judgment of truth,” apparently referring to former President Chun Doo-hwan. During a ceremony to commemorate the May 18 democracy movement in the southwestern city of Gwangju, [...]