Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.

Gwangju Uprising

1980 anti-government protest in South Korea

The Gwangju Democratization Movement, also known in South Korea as May 18 Democratization Movement, was a series of student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980, against the coup of Chun Doo-hwan. The uprising was violently suppressed by the…