Bts are none with their songs usually going against the government/ society but this is on another level here is some information on it:
May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement Part of the
Minjung Movement
May 18th
Minjung Memorial Tower
Date May 18–27, 1980 Location
Gwangju,
South KoreaCaused by The
coup d'état of May Seventeenth, the
assassination of
Park Chung-hee in 1979, the
seizure of power by
Chun Doo-hwan, state authoritarianism, and social and political discontent in
Jeolla Goals
Democratization Methods
Protest marches and
civil disobedience, later armed uprising resulted in Uprising pro-democracy movement, Several civilian and military casualties Parties to the civil conflict
The
Gwangju Uprising, alternatively called
May 18 Democratic Uprising by
UNESCO, and also known as
May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement, was a popular uprising in the city of
Gwangju, South Korea, from May 18 to 27, 1980. Estimates suggest up to 606 people may have died. During this period, Gwangju citizens took up arms (by robbing local armouries and police stations) when local
Chonnam University students – who were demonstrating against the
Chun Doo-hwan government – were fired upon, killed, and beaten in an unprecedented attack by government troops.
[6][7] The uprising eventually ended in defeat on May 27, 1980. The event is sometimes called
5·18 (May 18;
Hangul: 오일팔;
Hanja: 五一八;
RR:
Opal), in reference to the date the movement began.
Some critics of the event point to the fact that it occurred before Chun Doo-hwan officially took office, and so contend that it could not really have been a simple student protest against him that started it; however, Chun Doo-hwan had become the default leader of South Korea at that time since coming into power on December 12, 1979, after leading a successful military coup of the previous South Korean government.
During Chun Doo-hwan's presidency, the authorities used to define the incident as a rebellion instigated by Communist sympathizers and rioters.
[10] By 1997, a national cemetery and day of commemoration (May 18), along with acts to "compensate, and restore honour" to victims, were established.
[11]
In 2011, 1980 Archives for the May 18th Democratic Uprising against Military Regime located in Gwangju city hall were inscribed on the UNESCO
Memory of the World Register.
And then I saw this Jin talking about the members filming something in Gwangju:
THIS COMEBACK COULD BE HUGE!
