Hi, and welcome back to the Working Class History Podcast mini-series about the Kwangju Uprising of 1980.

If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, we'd recommend going back and listening to that first.

Love and No, Sarmu heard of being able,

name to name ofth of May, where the uprising the previous day had escalated,

and the South Korean military dictatorship of Tundu Wan was bringing in additional police and troops to try to put an end to it once and

for all. As a content note, this episode contains short but graphic descriptions of violence

and sexual violence. Kwangju residents again started taking to the streets on the morning

of the 20th of May,

exchanging stories of state brutality and of those who'd been savagely murdered.

Most schools in the city were shut down, including Kim Yongho's.

Kim's words here have been translated by Jiminy Lee and dubbed by a member of the Heng Coalition.

One day, it was an ordinary day that I went to school, but without any explanation, my teacher announced,

do not come to school until there's further notice. I didn't even have any question. All I could think about was

I can go home. I don't need to be stuck in school studying. I was so excited. So I packed up my bags

with my friends. We were heading back home. Then we were like, if we ever tell our parents that we

got to leave school early, they would put us in our rooms to study more anyway.

Soon, we decided to hang out till late, so our parents would think that we got home around 10 p.m. after studying at school.

So, we all headed to the city center.

It used to be around Jolanamdo Provincial Office, which was the core of the May 18th

Guangzhou Democratic uprising.

On our way there, we met the demonstrators, and we found them very interesting.

They shouted slogans like, Wei Jundu Han.

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