S. Korea marks anniv. of 1980 pro-democracy uprising

President Lee Jae Myung (R) talks with Park Young-soon, a former pro-democracy fighter, in the former building of the South Jeolla provincial government in the southwestern city of Gwangju on May 18, 2026, the 46th anniversary of the 1980 pro-democracy uprising. Park delivered the final broadcast from the situation room of the citizen's army in the building on May 27, 1980, in the uprising in which hundreds of people were killed in the city during their protests against the military junta of Chun Doo-hwan in May 1980. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

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