The April Revolution of South Korea - An Archive Footage (1960)

[mmatei0]

The beginning of Military Dictatorship in Korea?!

[AnglesM888]

It is amasing that how people are manipulated again and again!! Remember over 90% of the past revolutions have been highjacked by the so called elite or people in power. People are mostly the biggest losers because they refuse to use their brains insted of their hands and legs...SAD very sad...:-(

[tonilourdes]

If I was there I would torture, rape and kill Syngman Rhee

[mlovmo]

The citizens of Seoul were so angry at the rigging of a Vice-Presidential election and the death of a single student in Masan, and they rose up and showed their anger in an outright revolution.

Yet just two years later, when Park Chung-hee takes over in a coup d'etat, or twenty years later when hundreds died in Kwangju, nobody in Seoul could be bothered to care.

I know there are reasons for this discrepancy. I'm just shocked at how these same people just accepted these situations.

[Scottcreek942]

lol lee syngman flees

[TheMightySoo]

I'm so proud of my ancestors who defended the democracy from so many notorious military autocrats with their blood and lives.

[gabsylv]

@TheMightySoo Unfortunately, your ancestors, like all of our anceators. were themselves autocratic, and just substituted another autocracy for the old one. Fuck all ancestors, this type of thinking keeps KoreaN SOCIETY backwards,

[cultofmao]

What about the Jeju uprising?, i only just heard about it and only because i downloaded a north Korean movie with English subtitles. Western Propaganda is far worse than what is in any communist country i feel, they hide everything that does not fit in with the way people in the west are brain washed to believe. " Workers of the world unite" red flag for all the world!

[gabsylv]

@cultofmao Originally, the North did have the mandate of the people, but you're about twenty years too late for red flags. We can read about the Jeju Uprising anywhere in South Korea. You cannot read about "objective history: anywhere in the North. Enough said. 

[tonilourdes]

@gabsylv If you think the south korean view of history is objective just because they have been forced to accept the Jeju massacre as part of history you cant be sane, a lot more needs to be accepted by south before getting close to what happend during the last 50 years... Its not true they got a objective view of korean history in south... far from it, maybe the north are not all objective but they still have a more honest and correct view of what happened.

[gabsylv]

@tonilourdes There is no ONE objective history anywhere to be learnt. There are VARIOUS histories available in the South (Cumings' book has been translated and NK histories are available at libraries) and you can read socialist histories anywhere if you care enough to look for them. There is only ONE history in the North.

[gabsylv]

@marxian00 The same is true in the United States. But I'm saying that the availability of Marxist scholarship itself in teh South is an important differentiating factor.

[gabsylv]

@tonilourdes In terms of the socialist movement during the colonial period, perhaps the North is more "accurate", But by and large it's history serving the state in both Koreas, I guess what I'm saying is that there are more diverse options in the South, that is, among nationalisms. And the important contributions of early Japanese scholars and present day global scholarships are not *entirely* ignored in the South.

[lacris202]

@cultofmao Actually those students and citizens were quite confident about anti-communism(they wrote about it in their declerations). Only 10 years had passed after Northern Commnist Regime invaded and destroyed the homeland... This revolution was about regaining democracy, not a class war.

[AntinousIsGod1]

It's so typical for fascist dictators to visit people their soldiers shot and pretend to care for the cameras. Bastard. He should have been hung in a public square not retired in luxury on Hawaii!

[MrTotoro2000]

My parents came from S. Korea, but I was born here. I just entered college, and am takign a Korean Civilization class. Up until now, I had no idea how distraught South Korea's history was.. so many dictatorships, revolts, protests, etc. You can compare me to the "new" "386" generation. I grew up in this booming korean economy thinking it has always been this good. Man was I wrong.

[patefon39]

In Europa: 1956 -1970 BUDAPEST /Hungar/ . PRAHA. /Tschehy/. POSEN , GDANSK / Poland./. 1980 POLAND. Thank

German in writting ?

[JinSuka]

you are only showing what DID happen....Passion for freedom and democracy is not a bad thing!