The May 18 Memorial Foundation was established in order to develop our nation by remembering the spirit of struggle and solidarity of the May 18 Uprising. English available.
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Lewis, L. (2002). Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. Hawaii studies on Korea. University of Hawaiʻi Press, https://doi.org/10.21313/9780824863302
As one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the Uprising, Linda Lewis is uniquely positioned to write about the event. In this innovative work on commemoration politics, social representation, and memory, Lewis draws on her fieldwork notes from May 1980, writings from the 1980s, and ethnographic research she conducted in the late 1990s on the memorialization of Kwangju and its relationship to changes in the national political culture. Throughout, the chronological organization of the text is crisscrossed with commentary that provocatively disrupts the narrative flow and engages the reader in the reflexive process of remembering Kwangju over two decades.
Shin, G., & Hwang, K. (2003). Contentious Kwangju : the May 18 uprising in Korea’s past and present . Lanham, Md. ;: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis, Contentious Kwangju offers a comprehensive examination of the multiple, shifting meanings of this seminal event and explains how the memory of Kwangju has affected Korean life from politics to culture. (Source: Google Books)
Gleysteen, W. (1999). Massive entanglement, marginal influence : Carter and Korea in crisis . Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press.
William Gleysteen served as U.S. Ambassador to South Korea between 1978 and 1981. This book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies—conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities—contributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee. The author suggests that some lessons are relevant beyond Korea, for example, in treatment of human rights problems in China today.
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Ch’oe, C. (2006). The Gwangju uprising : the pivotal democratic movement that changed the history of modern Korea (1st American ed.). Paramus, N.J: Homa & Sekey Books.
This book explores the implications of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising, which took place in May 1980 when paratroopers brutally broke up a group of protesters who demonstrated against General Chun Doohwan's acceptance of the Korean presidency. People who lived in the Gwangju and South Jeolla provinces fought the paratroopers, insisting that martial law be abolished. During the event now known as the Gwangju Uprising, 191 people perished and 852 were wounded. Here, Choi Jung-woon explores the ramifications of this pivotal day in Korea's modern history on the country's society, economy and politics. Rather than give a traditional historical narrative of the event, he gives an indepth analysis of the participants' mentalities and incentives, and the type of the brutality involved in the uprising.
Wickham, J. (1999). Korea on the brink : from the “12/12 incident” to the Kwangju Uprising, 1979-1980 . Washington, D.C: National Defense University Press. This book presents insights into the sensitive role that General John A. Wickham, the senior American military commander in Korea from 1979 to 1982, played during a period of politico-military intrigue and great danger to United States security interests. This book is available at UH Manoa Library and full-text is available online via HathiTrust Digital Library.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. "Korea 1982 [11/01/1982 - 12/31/1982]" https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/digitallibrary/smof/nsc-asianaffairsdirectorate/sigur/r10/40-518-R10-009-2019.pdf (accessed 22 April 2020)
See Reagan Library Topic Guide - Korea. Some boxes include records relating to the Kwangju Uprising.
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