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Kwangju

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Kwangju, South Korea: see Gwangju Gwangju or Kwangju , city (1995 pop. 1,257,504), capital of South Jeolla (Cholla) prov. but administratively an independent metropolitan city, SW South Korea, in the Yeongsan (Yongsan) River lowland.
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Kwangju

City (pop., 2003 est.: 1,401,525), southwestern South Korea, capital of South Cholla province. It occupies an area of 193 sq mi (501 sq km) and constitutes a metropolitan city (province) by itself. It has been a centre of trade and local administration since the Three Kingdoms (57 BC); its modern industrial development began with a railway connection to Seoul in 1914. Kwangju was the site of an armed uprising between civilians and the government in 1980. It is the seat of Choson University (founded 1946).

Kwangju
a city in SW South Korea: an important military base during the Korean War; cotton textile industry. Pop.: 1 448 000 (2005 est.)
Kwangju 

a city in South Korea, capital of the South Cholla Province. Population, 403, 700 (1966). Kwangju is a transportation junction and the trade center of an agricultural region (Yonsangan plain). It also has a textile industry.
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Kwangju Story (1995) shows moments from a 1995 restaging of Korea's Democratic Uprising that occurred on May 18, 1980, and many of Oh's photographs simulate images circulated after the actual event.
Playing it straight by Caplan, Lindsay / Afterimage
He is well-known in South Korea for exposing the previously hidden role of the Carter administration in the Kwangju Uprising of 1980.
Raw deal between Washington and Seoul by Shorrock, Tim / Foreign Policy in Focus
After troops mercilessly beat students and opened fire against demonstrators, Kwangju citizens took up armed resistance as the numbers grew to 100,000 protesters.
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