Word: kwangju
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...national security is more important than democratic reforms. With that comment he was either insulting the intelligence of the Korean people or misrepresenting American ethics. Many Koreans are convinced that their army cannot be deployed without American approval. Thus, when President Chun used the army to massacre civilians in Kwangju, Koreans became deeply disturbed by American policy...
...phalanxes of students carrying pictures of Lee on forests of poles, youths bearing red-black-and- yellow banners, and a group of funeral dancers, who gracefully spun to the sounds of drums and cymbals. After reaching the city hall, the crowd sang patriotic songs, and a hearse departed for Kwangju, Lee's hometown 200 miles away...
Disturbances also broke out in Kwangju, but the most touching confrontation there involved not protesters but Lee's mourners. The victim's family had planned to bury him in a family plot in the city's main cemetery. His fellow students, however, insisted that he should be interred at another part of the cemetery, near the graves of many of the 180 people who had been killed in the bloody Kwangju riots in 1980. Although Lee's mother and sister struggled hysterically with student marshals, the youths eventually prevailed. The lone victim from this year's street struggles was buried...
Seven members of one family were killed when their house was demolished by a mud slide in the southern city of Kwangju, the officials said...
...also faces some problems. For one thing, the ex-general will be leading a party that has become widely unpopular for its close association with the military. For another, he is still identified as one of the commanders who ordered the military to quell the 1980 uprising in Kwangju that resulted in at least 180 deaths. For all this, however, Roh seems convinced that his best chance is to run as the man who put aside partisanship and found a way out of a national political crisis. "He never would have announced this thing unless he thought...