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What does it take for ordinary citizens to risk everything to protest living under a repressive government? What takes them beyond the brink, to the “boiling point”? In his graphic novel 100 DegreesC, celebrated webtoon and comics artist Choi Kyu-sok sheds a light on these questions by examining the lives of one family caught up in the great social unrest that developed under Chun Doo-hwan’s regime and culminated in the June 1987 Uprising. Crucial to understanding the events of the summer of 1987 is the recognition of both the political context and the dynamics of the nationwide effort that included students, office workers, and religious and labor groups-all of whom came together to demand a new constitution and free elections. Choi’s is a measured yet powerful representation of a pivotal moment in Korean history, when individuals questioned the status quo, when parents joined their children to express their grievances and agitate for democratic reforms, when an entire nation chose to move in a new direction.

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Subtitle: South Korea’s 1987 Democracy Movement
Author: Kyu-sok, Choi & Gia Kim & Nguyen Thi Huong Ly & Jusun Park & Brooke Shelton & Anna Toombs & Cheehyung Harrison Kim
Year: 2023
ISBN: 9780824893958
Pages: 277
Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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