5·18 Archive, 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition for UNESCO Memory of the World Registration

Until August 5: Theme of 'Layers of Memory, Future of Commemoration'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] The 5·18 Democratic Movement Archives announced on the 20th that it will hold the opening ceremony of the special exhibition commemorating the 10th anniversary of the inscription of the 5·18 records as a UNESCO Memory of the World on the 25th.

The special exhibition has been open since the 12th and is being held until August 5th at the permanent exhibition hall of the 5·18 Archives and the lobby of Jeonil Building 245.

This special exhibition features over 170 records collected through donations and acquisitions since the inscription, including the nine records registered with UNESCO.

Records that have not been previously disclosed, such as the Taegeukgi flag found during the relocation of the grave of martyr Park Gwan-hyeon, who was the student council president of Chonnam National University during the 5·18, the 1981 edition of the overseas Korean newspaper Overseas Hanminbo published in the U.S. containing the diary-style writing "Sadness More Than Anger" by Father Kim Seong-yong of the Catholic Center during the uprising, bullets from the treatment process of the wounded, and wanted posters, convey the pain of the 5·18 movement without filtering.

In particular, 45 out of 50 prints of "Dawn," a May print by artist Hong Seong-dam, who was a Chosun University student and a member of the cultural propaganda team in 1980, are exhibited, allowing the 5·18 Democratic Movement to be confirmed through artistic expression.

Additionally, in the lobby on the first floor of Jeonil Building 245, a Digilog-style exhibition centered on the 10-day uprising has been installed, providing visitors the opportunity to view original records, testimonies and videos of related persons at the time, and to select and check more records themselves.

The 5·18 records were inscribed as a UNESCO Memory of the World on May 25, 2011, marking their 10th anniversary this year.

Having received requests for the disclosure of new records from citizens and cultural artists who have culturally reinterpreted the 5·18 records, the 5·18 Archives prepared this exhibition to reveal more records on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO inscription, to inform the truth of 5·18, and to honor the public contributions of all citizens.

Jung Yong-hwa, director of the 5·18 Democratic Movement Archives, said, "I hope that more people will learn the truth of 5·18 through the records disclosed this time," and added, "I sincerely thank the citizens who donated the records and those who worked hard for the UNESCO inscription."

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