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 [...]
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 [...]
GWANGJU, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – An exhibition on late German journalist Jurgen Hinzpeter opened on Monday in the southwestern city of Gwangju as the city paid tribute in recognition of his efforts to report a 1980 democratic uprising to the world. The exhibition, held at the Gwangju City Hall, is timed with the box-office [...]