Gwangju Uprising Korean Dramas & Movies
A Taxi Driver
“A Taxi Driver” is a South Korean movie based on a true story that took place in 1980. The story follows the life of a taxi driver named Kim Man-seob,...
Youth of May
Hee Tae becomes the pride of Gwangju when he enters Seoul National University College of Medicine with top marks. His best friend Kyung Soo, an avid pro-democracy activist, insists that...
May 18
Having lost his parents at a young age, Min Woo takes care of his younger brother Jin Woo much like a father would. He harbours a secret crush on Shin...
Sandglass
The Sandglass is a story of two men whose friendship is put to the test through the 1970s and 1980s, one of Korea’s politically tumultuous periods. Park Tae Soo, tough...
Peppermint Candy
Outdoor Excursion: Spring 1999. A group of middle-aged, working-class friends meet for the 20th year reunion of their old factory worker’s association. While they sing and dance up a storm,...
26 Years
A top-secret project led by athletes, gangsters, police officers, heads of companies, and heads of bodyguard departments to convict ‘that person’ who is the main culprit of the massacre that...
A Petal
The film tells the story of a girl who was caught up in the 1980 Gwangju uprising at the age of 15, and its effect on her life in later...
Fork Lane
Kim Gang Il was mobilized as a paratrooper to suppress the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Protests in 1980. Working as a forklift driver after retirement, he follows some inconvenient truths...
The Fifth Republic
This drama is about the takeover of the Korean government in 1979 by Chun Doo Hwan....
Kim Gun
“Kim Gun” begins with a photo of an armed young man taken during the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and the ensuing Massacre. 35 years later, the identity of the man has...
Gwangju Video: The Missing
There are people whose lives have been shaken by the ‘Gwangju Video’. On May of 1980, the course of their lives changed in front of a huge wave of truth...
The Confessions of May in the Wilderness
The movie is a compilation of the movie “Wilderness” in which a member of the airborne unit who terminateed a girl during the Gwangju Democratization Movement burned himself to death...