May 18 - The Day a Nation's Conscience Died (OmeU)

Drama | Südkorea 2007 | 126min. | Regie: Ji-hoon Kim

The film is based on the massacre at Gwangju on May 18, 1980. It occurred when General Chun Doo-hwan tried to eliminate any rebels by using military force. The story of events leading up to the 1980 Gwangju massacre in South Korea when thousands of students and protesters were killed by armed troops during an anti-government demonstration.