I've just finished watching #YouthOfMay
Besides the fact that I can't stop crying and feeling sad, in the light of recent events, how can a South Korean President even consider declaring martial law, knowing what it means to the population?
He's not even young, he lived through those times as a kid or a teenager.
“corpses come into the hospital, but none go out. While surveying the area around the hospital in 1986, residents told me that the military hospital’s boiler room had been running nonstop during the uprising and had belched out so much soot that they didn’t dare open their earthenware jars [for fermented foods],”
#JimmyCarter #korea #GwangjuMassacre
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1043392.html
> For decades, conservatives have denied or dismissed the Gwangju Uprising, the atrocity in which the military dictator Chun Doo-hwan killed hundreds of pro-democracy protesters, and wounded or maimed thousands more. Because of Han’s Nobel win, more of the world will know that it not only happened, but also that it continues to matter.
https://yalereview.org/article/han-kang-nobel-prize
#HangKang #HumanActs #GwangjuUprising #GwangjuMassacre
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