December Post II

I found a movie, "Taxi Driver", which is motivated by Gwangju Uprising. It is in Korean but I used this as one of  the research resources:

<Information of the movie>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taxi_Driver
<Poster>
http://www.hanhodaily.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=53258

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  1. UnknownJanuary 17, 2018 at 6:12 AM

    It was a pleasure catching up with your blog! I am impressed with your work and sure that you will have a great presentation to share in May. Keep up the nice effort!

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