THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 25, 2022 at 18:58 JST
South Korean soldiers beat a demonstrator they pulled out of a bus 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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