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Gwangju Uprising

Took place on May 18, 1980

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The 47th anniversary falls on May 18, 2027, in 206 days.

The Gwangju Uprising, also known in South Korea as the May 18 Democratization Movement (Korean: 5·18 민주화 운동), was a series of student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980, against the coup d'état of May Seventeenth by Chun Doo-hwan that strengthened his power.

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