{"id":5929,"date":"2007-06-11T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T01:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/korea\/2007\/06\/the-june-struggle-in-the-british-newspapers\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:22:48","slug":"the-june-struggle-in-the-british-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/06\/the-june-struggle-in-the-british-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"The June struggle in the British newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at my own blog I&#8217;ve decided to mark the anniversary of the events of June 1987 in South Korea by following contemporary reports from the British newspapers on a day-by-day basis. Twenty years ago today, the real action of the June events <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaji.blogsome.com\/2007\/06\/11\/the-june-struggle-20-years-on-part-three-violence\/\">was getting under way<\/a> with serious violence on the streets of central Seoul, and the famous siege of My\u014fngdong Cathedral began.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I find something exciting about looking back at an event that happened within my memory (at least I have vague memories of the TV news reports) and seeing it as &#8216;history&#8217;. It is also interesting to see how perceptions of the event here and in Korea may have changed since the correspondents first filed their reports from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>All the posts will be accessible from <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaji.blogsome.com\/category\/june87\/\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at Japan Focus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanfocus.org\/products\/details\/2440\">Paik Nak-chung has an article<\/a> on the June Struggle and its legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at my own blog I&#8217;ve decided to mark the anniversary of the events of June 1987 in South Korea by following contemporary reports from the British newspapers on a day-by-day basis. Twenty years ago today, the real action of the June events was getting under way with serious violence on the streets of central&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[215,220,211,187,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-contemporary","category-korea","category-memory","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1xD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}