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May 18th National Cemetery () is a cemetery for those who participated in the Gwangju Uprising.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=At a Glance of Cemetery )〕 Built by the government of South Korea in 1997, it is located in Gwangju. Every May, on the anniversary of the uprising, it is common for citizens to visit the cemetery to honor the dead. ==History== The Gwangju Uprising, also known as May 18 Democratic Uprising, was a democratic movement in South Korea directed against the Chun Doo-hwan government, which violently suppressed Gwangju citizens. Under the Kim Young-sam administration, there was a movement to make May 18th National Cemetery a democratic shrine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=2029297&cid=42856&categoryId=42856 )〕 The previous May 18th Cemetery, or the "Mangweol-dong Cemetery" (구묘역), was the former burial site of those who died during the May 18th Democratic Uprising and the proceeding democratic movement. Some of those interred there for 17 years were delivered to the cemetery in garbage trucks.〔 Due to the cemetery's reputation as a Mangweol-dong, a "holy ground for democracy", the military had plans to destroy the graveyard.〔 Those plans never came to fruition. Following the democratization of Korea, a plan to create a National Cemetery was announced in 1993, giving rise to the New National Cemetery for the May 18th Democratic Uprising. Construction began in November 1994 and the new cemetery was opened in May 1997. Bodies from the Mangweol-dong Cemetery were exhumed and re-interred in the new location, while the old cemetery was restored to its former state.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kdu518.mpva.go.kr/ )〕 The new cemetery was promoted to the status of a national cemetery by presidential decree on July 27, 2002, and renamed the National Cemetery for the May 18th Democratic Uprising on January 30, 2006.〔 An annual commemoration is held each May, in which people pay their respect to those who died at both the old and new cemeteries.〔 Taryn Assaf observed that The two cemeteries came to represent two different aspects of the uprising: the new, designed to represent a commemoration of past sacrifices and the old marked by the symbolism of a continuing struggle. Interesting to note is the suggestion evident in the process of naming. Equating 'new' with 'official' and 'old' with 'unofficial' serve to influence popular conception of the significance of the different actors involved in the uprising, their place in history, their ideologies and their legacies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「May 18th National Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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