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Based on the information from the reasearch of Gwangju Uprising, I found a very interesting fact. Most of the people who instigated the protest against the government was students. In other words, they were in my age and were brave enough to fight agaisnt what they really want, freedom. If I was in their shoes, I can't imagine myself sacrificing myself to gain 'freedom'. I will be satisfy with what I have because of the fear of being slaughter by the government. It was a disaster. The hell where people have no hope and no future from the force from the government. If people got caught with the action of protest, they lose everything: lose what they had called 'freedom' that doesn't really set people free. Gwangju Uprising reminds me of the era when Korea was the colony of Japan. The time when Korea was the colony of Japan was during 1910 - 1945. Japan trespass on Korea and kill the powerful government figure, the queen of Korea, Queen Myeongseong to declare the...

I found an article talking about the current president in South Korea, commemorating Gwangju Uprising. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/806290/south-korea-anniversary-pro-democracy-gwangju-uprising

I found the timeline of Gwangju Uprising that I find it really helpful to create paintings.  The timeline is well depicting the situation of Gwangju Uprising. It frighten me with the details.  https://ohyilpal.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/timeline-of-may-18-27-1980/ TIMELINE OF MAY 18 -27, 1980 May 18, 1980 00:00 – Chun Doo Hwan declares martial law throughout the country 01:00 – Paratroops deployed to and occupy Chonnam National University and Chosun University in Gwangju 09:00 – Students of Chonnam National University start protesting against the occupation of the university 10:30 – Paratroops begin to suppress student by beating them with clubs Confrontations between students and soldiers rise around the city throughout the day, and other troops standing at the periphery of Gwangju come into the city, with the operation name ‘Splendid Vacation’ May 19, 1980 11:00 – Citizens gather at Gwangju hub, Gumnamro, and paratroops open fire with a tank 15:...

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

I found some videos: 1.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTcXBGibhhM     => American news casts on the 1980 Kwangju Uprising in South Korea. 2.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2b7PhnQXWc      => The report by foreign reporters 3.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTZfdYGgglQ     => A soldier suddenly hit a innocent citizen

<Interview> For the interview section, I decided to interview my grandfather and my father. They lived in Hwasun County, where is nearby Gwangju during the Gwangju Uprising. Hwasun county wasn't the part of the government riot but it was still districted area like Gwangju (no one from other city or country could come in). Even though the county where my grandfather and father lived was't the part of the riot, it still was influenced by the riot. First, I interviewed my father. He was 24 years old when the riot happened. Two month before the Gwangju uprising happened, he left home to go back to his college. He did not expect the riot to happened and the situation was really bad. When the Gwangju Uprising was going on, he did not know about the government riot to the citizen in Gwangju because the government restricted any sort of contact from Gwangju to any other place; the government kept the truth and rejected to reveal it. They ended up with relaying the false inform...

Some of the inspiring pictures that I found by researching. Pictures are from: http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=tomsawyer97&logNo=220415633823&parentCategoryNo=&categoryNo=40&viewDate=&isShowPopularPosts=false&from=postView