At the height of the military government in 1980, a pro-democracy protest with nearly 200,000 demonstrators took place in Gwangju, South Korea. It was brutally suppressed with a massacre of 600 to 2,300 people killed—though the South Korean government claims that it’s only 170. The Gwangju Uprising was initially unsuccessful in bringing about democratic reform … Continue reading Human Acts by Han Kang
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