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First performed in secret in 1982, “March for the Beloved” was a song written to commemorate the “soul marriage” of two activists killed during a 1980 protest in this city. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this former capital of South Jeolla province, where demonstrators were massacred in an uprising begun by students at Chonnam University following Chun Doo-hwan’s May 17th coup.

ANSWER: Gwangju [accept Gwangju uprising]

[10e] That coup followed the unrest after the assassination of this leader, whose rule began with the 1961 May 16 Coup. His daughter also served as president of South Korea before her impeachment in 2017.

ANSWER: Park Chung Hee [or Chung Hee Park] (His daughter is Park Geun-hye.)

[10m] The suppression of the Gwangju uprising is sometimes compared to Syngman Rhee’s bloody response to an earlier uprising on this South Korean island, during which guerrillas retreated to the caves of its Hallasan volcano.

ANSWER: Jeju Island [or Jejudo]

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