Women's experiences in the Gwangju Uprising

Women have been recognized as a “group of invisibility,” one that tends not to expose its experiences and lives. As the feminist view ¹ appeared as a new perspective, however, women’s identities began to be brought to the fore through studies that rendered their experiences and lives more visible. ² These studies endeavored to explore how women’s identities or experiences have been defined by others, and through exterior factors such as socio-cultural conditions. These studies have also sought to explain that women are subjective beings, who have their own interpretations of situations and who choose and adopt their own measures to their lives, not always remaining as “the others.”