Witnessing Gwangju

A Memoir

Paul Courtright (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2020
Hollym International Corp.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-56591-495-7 (ISBN)

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An eye-witness memoir of the Gwangju Uprising, published to coincide with the 40th anniversary.

A moving and distressing first-hand account of the terrible massacre that occurred over several days in May 1980 that was to signal the birth of democracy in South Korea and the end of successive military-backed authoritarian governments. After returning to Korea in 2019 for the first time since the 1980 Uprising, the author was shocked to discover that many people he talked to were not aware of the truth of these horrendous events. Some thought it was a Communist insurrection fomented by North Korea; to others it was a student riot; others doubted it ever happened Paul Courtright was there. He saw what happened. He felt duty-bound to reveal the truth. This book is his account.

Dedication 2
Author’s note 3
Prologue 4

Day 1 (Wednesday, May 14): Demonstration curiosity for the uninitiated 6
Day 2 (Thursday, May 15): Demos are neither won nor lost 12
Day 3 (Friday, May 16): Good to be heading home 19
Day 4 (Saturday, May 17): Getting back to normal 27
Day 5 (Sunday, May 18): Disturbing rumors streak across the sky 33
Day 6 (Monday, May 19): Something awful happened here 38
Day 7 (Tuesday, May 20): Getting marching orders and the last bus home 47
Day 8 (Wednesday, May 21): You can push people only so far 54
Day 9 (Thursday, May 22): The mundane and the crazy can easily coexist in the middle of an uprising 67
Day 10 (Friday, May 23): We are all “impure elements” 82
Day 11 (Saturday, May 24): Translating in a mortuary 100
Day 12 (Sunday, May 25): Is there peace to be found heading over the mountain? 119
Day 13 (Monday, May 26): Losing my temper and heading to Seoul 129

Epilogue 139
Acknowledgments 142

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2020
Verlagsort	Elizabeth
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 210 mm
Einbandart	Englisch Broschur
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-56591-495-3 / 1565914953
ISBN-13	978-1-56591-495-7 / 9781565914957
Zustand	Neuware