Chong-suk Han
Contributor
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. His contributions to SAGE Publications’s Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice (2007) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (1)
Gwangju Uprising, mass protest against the South Korean military government that took place in the southern city of Gwangju between May 18 and 27, 1980. Nearly a quarter of a million people participated in the rebellion. Although it was brutally repressed and initially unsuccessful in bringing…
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