PLSC 389E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gwangju Uprising, Gfk Entertainment Charts, Authoritarianism
13 Jul 2017
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From park"s dictatorship to chun"s dictatorship (robinson, p. 140) Political cleavage: authoritarianism vs. democracy and korea-us relations: the kwangju uprising and massacre (may 18-27) Assassination of park in october in 1979, choi gyuha as president. Kcia, the army security command (asc), and the presidential security services (pss). A protective military coup beginning in dec 1979. Chun"s expansion of power, martial law on may 17. After 17 years of rule under president park, korean citizens demanded democracy. Another military coup with a bloody crack-down of civilian uprising in kwangju. Demands for democratization: repeal martial law, clarify the democratization schedule, release king dj, chun dh must go. Media control by chun administration said that rioters, mobsters a liated with nk was the reasoning for riots. The truth of kwangju: juergen hinzpeter (german journalist, tokyo correspondent) germany, Eurovision, cbs. lynched by the riot police in seoul, 1986 didn"t die from the lynching.
