USIS smoking. Photographic records of May 18th Gwangju Democratic Uprising released by the May 18th Memorial Foundation.
A Tragic Aftermath
The tragedies in Gwangju and election of Chun Doo-hwan left Koreans hungry for redemption.
New York Times, August 27, 1980.
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Chun Doo-hwan was elected president August, 1980 through the NCU. A new constitution restricted presidency to one 7-year term.
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"He was the sole candidate in restrict, pro-forma ballot by a conservative rubber stamp." |
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Photographic records of May 18th Gwangju Democratic Uprising released by the May 18th Memorial Foundation.
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Anti-Americanism sentiment popularized after the U.S's role in the Gwangju Uprising was uncovered.
"The students had handed in a list of five written demands. The first was that Ambassador Walker come to the USIS Library and personally apologize for the “slaughter” of an alleged 2,500 people in Kwangju. The other demands concerned matters like the removal of American nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and our immediately ensuring the peaceful reunification of Korea by withdrawing our troops from the South Korea." Since 1980, the U.S. Information Service in Gwangju has been attacked 30 times.
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