The Gwangju Uprising — when citizens and students rose up against Chun Doo-hwan's military dictatorship and suffered brutal repression by the army— is a key episode to understand how today's democracy in Korea was conquered, at a very high human cost.
During the days of the massacre, the Jimmy Carter administration (which publicly advocated for human rights in the world) kept a low profile and avoided putting firm pressure on the military junta.
This generated in the following decades a deep anti-American sentiment among South Korea's student and democratic movements, who considered that the US had prioritized its geopolitical interests by sacrificing the blood of the people of Gwangju.
Patricia López Muñoz
Student of English Studies
High Technician in Sociocultural Animation
Specialist in Immigration
High Technician in Social Integration
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