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Yes in particular it's viewed as a pro-communist armed revolt from a region that has not received any of benefit from Korea's rising economy. It's a controvers
by curiously 12y ago
Yes in particular it's viewed as a pro-communist armed revolt from a region that has not received any of benefit from Korea's rising economy.
It's a controversial topic in Korea and views are divided. It's interesting to note that the special force soldiers specifically from South East region were handpicked to carry out merciless beatings and killings.
- yongjik 12y agoOh for fuck's sake, shut the fuck up. The only people who say the uprising of Gwangju is a pro-communist revolt are super-extreme-right-wing (even by Korea's standard) shitheads who can't tell their ass from their mouth. Sometimes they make pretty noises when the court fines them for slandering those who died in Gwangju. (Even our largely conservative court decided these idiots are not worth the rice they eat.) "It's a controversial topic in Korea and views are divided"? Jesus Christ. (Well, just in case anyone's wondering if I'm parroting one side's argument, the "leftists" like me aren't immune to idiotic arguments from time to time. Decades ago it used to be popular to suggest that the US might have provoked the North Korea into starting the Korean War. Of course, the fall of Soviet Union and the release of tons of documents put an end to that line of thought. We're dealing with that level of reality distortion field here.)