Exhibition looks at South Korea’s path to democracyBy Lee I-chia / Staff Reporter Staff ReporterA photography exhibition on South Korea’s democratization opened yesterday at the National 228 Memorial Museum in Taipei. Chu said the road to democracy in Taiwan and South Korea occurred at about the same time, starting with the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident that led to demonstrations and the lifting of Martial Law in July 1987, and in South Korea with the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. The two nation achieved democracy from the bottom up, with the people’s demonstrations forcing the authoritarian regimes to give in, Chu said. “Without the sacrifice and dedication of previous activists, there would be no democracy, freedom and human rights today,” he said. Quoting South Korean independence activist Sin Chae-ho, Chu said: “A nation that forgets its history does not have a future.”Chu added that Taiwanese should be conscious of history.

Source: Taipei Times June 14, 2020 15:56 UTC