ABSTRACT
I was provincial news editor of the newspaper Chosun Ilbo and responsible for coverage in the provinces, outside Seoul, at the time of the "cruelest month"—the expression Koreans use for this hot and sticky season—namely May 1980. As such I was responsible for our coverage of the Kwangju Democratization Movement, as it became known—the Kwangju uprising. Prior to taking on a news editor's desk job I had served as the newspaper's Washington correspondent for six years from 1972 to early 1979. Thereafter I was briefly foreign news editor, before being made a provincial news editor in early 1980.
