Jīntiān de Guāngzhōu Guǎngyùshì jiùshì yī jiǔ bā líng nián Guāngzhōu Shìjiàn fāshēng de dìfang.
Present-day Gwangju Metropolitan City is where the 1980 Gwangju Uprising took place.
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culture
Don't confuse this with Guangzhou (广州) in southern China: same characters in Korean Hanja (光州) but a different city. South Korea has six 广域市 ('metropolitan cities'): Busan, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju, Daejeon, and Ulsan.
history
Gwangju is best known internationally for the May 1980 民主化运动 (democratization movement), brutally suppressed by the Chun Doo-hwan government and now commemorated as a foundational moment of modern Korean democracy.
