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Chong-suk Han
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BIOGRAPHY

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.

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Large crowd of people, mostly young, sit closely packed in a public square during the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea, 1980, with buildings and trees in the background.
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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