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K 12 December 1979 coup

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Maps, portrayals and rituals of 12 December 1979 coup.

Educational history. Casualty figures are documented ranges. This is not operational advice, a ranking of nations, or a how-to for weapons or coups.

Seoul: Army HQ, DSC, the river crossings of a past night -- named as history.

Gwangju: May 18 cemetery as the required second map.

Maps

Vacuum

26 Oct-11 Dec 1979 in Seoul: Army HQ, Hanahoe networks, after Park Chung-hee's assassination: Assassination; investigation politics. A memory map, not a present overlay.

The night

12 Dec 1979 in Seoul: Army HQ, Hanahoe networks, after Park Chung-hee's assassination: Hanahoe seizes the army centre. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Gwangju

May 1980 in Seoul: Army HQ, Hanahoe networks, after Park Chung-hee's assassination: The civic sequel. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Fifth Republic

1980-87 in Seoul: Army HQ, Hanahoe networks, after Park Chung-hee's assassination: Chun years; 1987 break. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Trials and film

1995- in Seoul: Army HQ, Hanahoe networks, after Park Chung-hee's assassination: Legal and cultural afterlife. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Portrayals

Chun Doo-hwan biographies

The usual English doorway into 12 December 1979 coup: The centre of 12.12 and of the Fifth Republic. Convicted in the 1990s; a contested death-and-memory figure after 2021.

Roh Tae-woo biographies

The paired doorway: Moved a key division on 12.12; later president (1988-93) and convicted alongside Chun.

School survey chapters

Where 12 December 1979 coup (12 December 1979 (night of the seizure; 17 May 1980 and Gwangju follow)) is a paragraph or a unit in US/UK/AU/CA -- often thinner than Seoul: Army HQ, Hanahoe networks, after Park Chung-hee's assassination local hours.

Local museums / sites in Seoul: Army HQ

Thicker than the English paragraph. Trials and film is the usual late pilgrimage caption.

Feature film / television

If 12 December 1979 coup has a visual canon, it probably outruns the monographs. Treat film as memory, not as a log.

Korean civic halls and curricula

12 December 1979 coup belongs in Seoul classrooms and the War Memorial circuit -- a civic file, not an English afterthought.

Rituals

1979-10-26 / 2010s-20s dates

The usual ritual poles of 12 December 1979 coup: Park assassinated and Cinema / civic memory.

Museum and cemetery wreaths

Official and family rites at sites in Seoul: Army HQ, Hanahoe networks, after Park Chung-hee's assassination. Yun Bo-seon / civic opposition is often the civilian or corrective name on the plaque.

Classroom minutes

Where 12 December 1979 coup is on the syllabus -- in Anglophone schools often beside 11 November or a Second World War unit, not always beside Seoul: Army HQ, Hanahoe networks, after Park Chung-hee's assassination's own calendar.

Sayings

Hanahoe

10.26

Faction captured the chain of command

"12 December 1979 coup" as shorthand

English maps that only say "Kwangju 1980" are missing December.

A Korean civic atlas already knows this; this English page exists to catch up without becoming a playbook.

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