Kim Moon-Soo Absent From Gwangju Massacre Memorial Service: South Korean Ruling Party and Citizen Backlash? (Kyodo News)

[Kyodo News, Gwangju] Kim Moon-soo, former Minister of Employment and Labor of the conservative ruling party "People Power Party," who is running for South Korea's presidential election, skipped a government-sponsored ceremony on the 18th to mourn the victims of the "Gwangju Uprising," in which the military suppressed the democratization movement in Gwangju, southwest of the country, in 1980.