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a quick internet search reveals this refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

dsego 2y ago
Interesting, I don't remember learning or hearing about this one. > While the South Korean government claimed 165 people were killed in the massacre, scholarship on the massacre today estimates 600 to 2,300 victims. Just for the sake of it, compared it to the widely known chinese tiananmen square massacre, albeit this one has widely varying figures on wikipedia: > The Chinese Red Cross had given a figure of 2,600 deaths but later denied having given such a figure.[16][17] The Swiss Ambassador had estimated 2,700. Beijing hospital records compiled shortly after the events recorded at least 478 dead and 920 wounded. ...etc
- Isamu 2y ago
  Here’s a more recent movie related to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taxi_Driver https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taxi_Driver It’s pretty good, you should be able to find it on streaming services.
  - Isamu 2y ago
    I also recommend this book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Acts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Acts although it is pretty heavy reading, about ordinary people caught up in horrific events.
- skhr0680 2y ago
  South Korea stopped murdering their citizens for expressing themselves. China didn’t
- pjc50 2y ago
  > I don't remember learning or hearing about this one Happened with tacit approval of the US, that's probably why - since it was ""anticommunist"".
  - dsego 2y ago
    I guess it's common to assign different motives based on which side did the deed. You know, their crimes are stemming from an innate moral deficiency, our crimes are an exception or the result of external circumstances, not reflective of our core values.
- bigbacaloa 2y ago
  In the US one is not taught about US support of dictatorships in the past and present.
robin_reala 2y ago
When I visited Gwangju I spend some time in the museum dedicated to the uprising, and the military area where people were tortured. It was pretty harrowing.
sitkack 2y ago
> The Gwangju Uprising, known in Korean as May 18 (Korean: 오일팔; Hanja: 五一八; RR: Oilpal; lit. Five One Eight), were student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980, against the dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan. The uprising was violently suppressed by the South Korean military with the approval and logistical support of the United States under the Carter administration, which feared the uprising might spread to other cities and tempt North Korea to interfere.

dsego 2y ago

Interesting, I don't remember learning or hearing about this one. > While the South Korean government claimed 165 people were killed in the massacre, scholarship on the massacre today estimates 600 to 2,300 victims. Just for the sake of it, compared it to the widely known chinese tiananmen square massacre, albeit this one has widely varying figures on wikipedia: > The Chinese Red Cross had given a figure of 2,600 deaths but later denied having given such a figure.[16][17] The Swiss Ambassador had estimated 2,700. Beijing hospital records compiled shortly after the events recorded at least 478 dead and 920 wounded. ...etc

Isamu 2y ago
Here’s a more recent movie related to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taxi_Driver https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taxi_Driver It’s pretty good, you should be able to find it on streaming services.
- Isamu 2y ago
  I also recommend this book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Acts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Acts although it is pretty heavy reading, about ordinary people caught up in horrific events.
skhr0680 2y ago
South Korea stopped murdering their citizens for expressing themselves. China didn’t
pjc50 2y ago
> I don't remember learning or hearing about this one Happened with tacit approval of the US, that's probably why - since it was ""anticommunist"".
- dsego 2y ago
  I guess it's common to assign different motives based on which side did the deed. You know, their crimes are stemming from an innate moral deficiency, our crimes are an exception or the result of external circumstances, not reflective of our core values.
bigbacaloa 2y ago
In the US one is not taught about US support of dictatorships in the past and present.

robin_reala 2y ago

When I visited Gwangju I spend some time in the museum dedicated to the uprising, and the military area where people were tortured. It was pretty harrowing.

sitkack 2y ago

> The Gwangju Uprising, known in Korean as May 18 (Korean: 오일팔; Hanja: 五一八; RR: Oilpal; lit. Five One Eight), were student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980, against the dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan. The uprising was violently suppressed by the South Korean military with the approval and logistical support of the United States under the Carter administration, which feared the uprising might spread to other cities and tempt North Korea to interfere.