Paul Courtright

Paul Courtright is a professor (adjunct) at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Witnessing Gwangju, the first memoir on the Korean uprising by a foreigner. 

South Korea is still haunted by the Gwangju Uprising

The news that President Yoon had instated martial law on Tuesday hit me hard. The last time martial law was declared in South Korea, in May 1980, I was a Peace Corps volunteer living in Gwangju, a city in the south west of the country. Peaceful protests against martial law took place in the city,