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NYTimes 1986 Protest in Kwangju

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<p>A dicussion about protests that occured in Kwangju, South Korea after the infamous 1980 Kwangju uprising (also known as the&nbsp;<span>May 18 Democratic Uprising). In the 1980, Kwangju residents protested the largely dictatorial actions of the South Korean Army major general Chun Doo-hwan, who had led a Coup d'etat after the previous authoritarian president had been assinated&nbsp;</span></p>