The Kwangju Uprising: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press

by Henry Scott Stokes, Lily Xiao Hong Lee

Overview

In Kwangju, South Korea, in 1980 a student uprising ended in the brutal suppression and massacre of protestors, an event burned into the minds of all South Koreans. This text presents original South Korean accounts of the incident, along with the reports of Western journalists who witnessed events.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765606372
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2000
Series:	Pacific Basin Institute Book Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1040L (what's this?)

About the Author

Stokes, Henry Scott; Lee, Lily Xiao Hong

Table of Contents

Part one Two Korean Voices; Chapter One Days and Nights on the Street, Kim Chung Keun; Chapter Two Operation "Fascinating Vacations", Lee Jai Eui; Part two The Foreign Press; Chapter Three Remembering Kwangju, Terry Anderson; Chapter Four A Nightmare in Broad Daylight, Gebhard Hielscher; Chapter Five I Bow My Head, Jurqen Hinzpeter; Chapter Six Reflections on Kwangju, Sam Jameson; Chapter Seven Yun Sang Won: The Knowledge in Those Eyes, Bradley Martin; Chapter Eight A Scream for Freedom, Henry Scott-Stokes, Shim Jae Hoon, Phillippe Pons; Chapter Nine "Let's Live and Meet Again", Norman Thorpe; Part three The Korean Press; Chapter Ten An Editor's Woes, Kim Dae Jung; Chapter Eleven How the Provincial Hall Was Taken, Cho Sung Ho; Chapter Twelve Bang! Bang! Bang!, Suh Chung Won; Chapter Thirteen "Maybe I Was Too Young..", Chang Jae Yol; Chapter Fourteen A Photographer's Credo, Hwang Jong Gon; Chapter Fifteen "Not One Line..", Ryu Jong Hwan; Chapter Sixteen Kwangju, That Changed My Destiny, Oh Hyo Jin; Chapter Seventeen Kwangju Is Not over Yet, Kim Yang Woo;