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Religion for Lunch: “Why Were They Arrested? Religious Leaders and Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Democratization”
My talk will focus on the role Catholic priests and women associated with the YWCA played during a violent attack by the South Korean military on the South Korean city of Gwangju in May, 1980. I will ask why they were arrested, but Protestant pastors and Buddhist monks were not.
My talk will focus on the role Catholic priests and women associated with the YWCA played during a violent attack by the South Korean military on the South Korean city of Gwangju in May, 1980. I will ask why they were arrested, but Protestant pastors and Buddhist monks were not.
