<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">Not to mention Indonesia 1966-67 ("Year of Living Dangerously"), Philippines Jan-Feb 1986 ("People Power"), Tiananmen Square Beijing 1989, and, who would forget, Korea June 1987 (Democracy constitution), to name a few I've seen and/or written about. After all of those, and others, it's possible to wonder about their real impact and outcome -- though Korea would seem to have worked out better than most. (No doubt much too much to imagine anyone up North is about to emulate the Egyptian experience after failing to follow the examples of the fall of east bloc leadership circa 1990.)<br>Here's a link to further thoughts:<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MB12Dg01.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MB12Dg01.html</a></span><br>Don Kirk<br><div style="font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Werner Sasse <werner_sasse@hotmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> list korean studies <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, February 12, 2011 11:57:52 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [KS] Egypt and Gwangju 1980<br></font><br>
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Dear George and Ed,<br>
while I understand the political side of it (unexpected collaps of seemingly solid repression politics) I am a little worried when reading Egypt and Gwangju in the same sentence, because somehow (whithout mentioning the brutal behavior of the military and the political cover-up) it may have the effect of belittling 8.15...<br>
Best to you, <br>
Werner<br> <br>
> From: ejbaker@fas.harvard.edu<br>> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:05:12 +0900<br>> To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>> Subject: Re: [KS] Egypt and Gwangju 1980<br>> <br>> Dear George,<br>> <br>> There has been little comment along this line and I'm glad to see your piece. But how come you didn't mention 4.19 which overthrew Syngman Rhee in April, 1960.<br>> <br>> I'm rapidly recovering and we'll head for home on Feb 16.<br>> <br>> Yours,<br>> <br>> Ed<br>> <br>> <br>> On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:34 PM, george katsiaficas wrote:<br>> <br>> > Dear all,<br>> > <br>> > Please check the link for a connection drawn between Gwangju 1980 and Egypt<br>> > today.<br>> > <br><span>> > <a target="_blank"
href="http://213.158.162.45/%7Eegyptian/index.php?action=news&id=14994&title=The%20E">http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=14994&title=The%20E</a></span><br>> > ros%20effect%20comes%20to%20Cairo<br>> > <br>> > George <br>> > <br>> <br>> <br> </div></div>
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