THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 25, 2022 at 18:58 JST
Joined by busses and taxis, students and other protesters march toward the military that was suppressing the uprising in Gwangju, South Korea on May 20, 1980. (Katsuo Aoi)
GWANGJU, South Korea--Local researchers here are examining hundreds of rare photos taken by a Japanese photographer of protesters brutally oppressed by the military in 1980 in an uprising in South Korea’s struggle for democracy. [Read More]
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