Word: kwangju
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...professor and long-serving bureaucrat, released opposition leaders from prison and promised elections and a new constitution. But his moderate reforms were cut short after a cabal of generals seized power later that year, leaving Choi President in name only. He resigned in 1980 in the wake of the Kwangju massacre, in which over 200 pro-democracy activists were killed...
...RESIGNED. LEE HUN JAI, 60, South Korean Finance and Economic Minister; after legislators called for his ouster over suspect real estate transactions; in Seoul. Revelations emerged in January that Lee's wife, Jin Jin Sook, may have flouted residency laws with a 1979 purchase of land in Kwangju, south of Seoul, which she later sold for a profit of $4.6 million. Lee denied any improprieties, but said he would step down because the controversy "could burden the President and be of no help to the economy...
...strikes to the North Korean nuclear crisis to relations with the U.S. has sent his approval ratings plummeting to 25.6% from 80% right after he took office. "I supported Roh because he was new and clean," says Myong No Min, a furniture-shop owner in the southern city of Kwangju. "Now I really regret it. He's not ready to be President...
...ever happened to South Korea. Such sentiment would be unwelcome in South Korea, where the unspoken sentiment is that South Koreans achieved democracy not because of, but in spite of the U.S., in the past an eager supporter of the military dictatorships and possibly a silent accomplice in the Kwangju massacre of May 1980 that put down a swelling pro-democracy movement...
...hundreds of unexplained deaths because many of the victims' families were suspicious or too discouraged after years of failing to get answers. It solved only 34. "Too many cases were left unsolved," admits commission president Hang Sang Beom. "This is a blow against democratic reform." (The infamous 1980 Kwangju massacre was investigated by another body that ended its work last year. The government paid compensation of $190 million to victims and victims' families, although critics say the official death toll of fewer than 200 people is grossly understated...