South Koreans take to boxing.Unfortunately they got burned by extreme rightist elements during a short lived citizens uprising that was not communist nor socialist driven beginning may 1, 1980.
Students at a regional college were protesting on campus, were confronted with black beret, bayonet wielders.
This is a part of a historical exhibit in San Francisco by the Whole Earth magazine.
An uprising began which involved larger neighborhoods.
The uprising was put down on May 18, by the South Korean Army.
A handful of people claim that Jimmy Carter was to blame.
He was the President of theU.S. but many people meet in the White House in a session that is inluenced by diplomatic cables.
Hodding Carter said "restore order" this was the instruction to the South Korean government not a light from President C arter.
The death toll are in the 200 count by the majority of south korean
investigators.
Original: Kwangju City history, see the panorama