Gwangju UprisingOn 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup dtat and martial law government of General Chun Doo hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days, hundreds of students, activists, and citizens were arrested, tortured, and murdered. The events of the uprising shaped over a decade of resistance to the repressive South Korean regime and paved the way for the