According to the committee, the Army fired at
Gwangju residents from 500MD and UH-1H helicopters on May 21 and 27, and fighter jets armed with bombs were on standby as backup during the uprising.
According to police, a hardware store owner in
Gwangju discovered last Thursday that 20 million won ($18,800) she put under a floor mat had vanished.
Three children died and a young mother was injured in a fire at an apartment in
Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, police said Sunday.
"A Taxi Driver," a film loosely based on the
Gwangju massacre on May 18, 1980, will open an annual Korean film festival in Frankfurt.
The team has gathered testimony and old memos written by paratroops stationed at the prison during the
Gwangju Uprising.
Kenderesi, who was competing at the world championships in
Gwangju, about 330 km (205 miles) south of Seoul, was arrested in the early hours of Sunday and questioned over an incident at a nightclub, an official at the
Gwangju Seobu Police Station told Reuters.
The upper floor of a nightclub in the southwestern city of
Gwangju collapsed Saturday, killing two people and injuring more than 10, including athletes competing at the 18th FINA World Championships, according to the city authorities.