E56: Gwangju uprising, part 4

Working Class History

Society & Culture, Education, History

5.0 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The final part of our four-part podcast miniseries about the May 18 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980 against the US-backed military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan. We speak with Kim Yong Ho, David Dolinger and Jeon Yong Ho, who took part in the events, as well as researcher and lead translator of the excellent book, Gwangju Diary, Kap Su Seol.
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This week, we speak with our guests about the aftermath of the uprising, and its legacy in terms of later struggles, the restoration of democracy in 1987 and its repercussions today.
See full information, acknowledgements, sources and a transcript here on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2021/06/29/e53-the-gwangju-uprising-1980/

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome back to part four of our podcast mini-series on the 1980 Kwangju Uprising.
0:05.0	If you haven't listened to parts one to three yet, I'd go back and listen to those first.
0:14.2	Love No, Sarmu Mehani,
0:16.9	but a name of name of himchiphe. Hi, and thanks for listening to the working class history podcast.
0:34.9	As we bring this mini-series to a close, we just wanted to give a final reminder
0:38.2	that this has only been made possible because of support from you, our listeners on Patreon.
0:43.1	So if you'd like to support us and access exclusive content, like a bonus episode with more
0:47.7	information and stories from the Quang-Dur uprising from our interviewees, sign up to join us on
0:52.4	Patreon at patreon.com slash working class history,
0:56.0	link in the show notes.
0:58.0	As a content note, there's a brief mention of sexual violence later on in this episode.
1:04.2	After the uprising was crushed, the working class and pro-democracy movements all over
1:08.2	the country were met with a wave of repression.
1:10.8	Kapsu Sol, researcher and co-translator of the book, Guangzhou Diary, explains more.
1:16.5	I think we should talk about regalia of Guangzhou and the aftermath of Guangzhou.
1:21.4	We should talk about Saskaree and diary.
1:24.9	After the Guangzhou, everywhere become a Guangzhou in a sense. There's always
1:31.1	mess arrest. Police siege bookstore, police was every day, police was on college campus.
1:41.7	I mean, you asked, such and frisk was big issue in for many years, but such and free school's big issue in South, in for many years,
1:46.5	but such a free school's daily life in South Korea for a while.
1:50.2	If you were 20, walk down to downtown Seoul, you have to be stopped by a person at least twice.
1:56.8	And that they search your bag, your pocket, pretty much everything.
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