President Yoon Seok-yeol, accompanied by the People's Power National Assembly, transformed the May of Gwangju into a 'broad of liberalism'.
In his May 18 commemoration speech, President Yoon said, “We remember the May protest 42 years ago, when the values of liberal democracy and human rights were defended with blood. Facing the pain of that day head-on, we have developed liberal democracy in this land. Therefore, the spirit of May, which defended liberal democracy with blood, is the cornerstone of national unity,” he said as the birthplace of liberalism.
In November of last year, Justice Party presidential candidate Shim Sang-jung said, “Gwangju in May is the spirit of the Republic of Korea. It is the foundation of our democracy,” he said.
On the 14th, at the National Workers' Congress to inherit the spirit of the May 18 Gwangju People's Uprising on the 42nd anniversary of Geumnam-ro, Gwangju, on the 14th, Chairman Yang Kyung-soo said, "Changing the unequal world is the spirit of Gwangju in May." Let's fight," he said.
In May of last year, the Gwangju Jeonnam Association of Professors and Researchers and six professors' organizations said, "The liquidation of the legacy of corruption and dictatorship that has taken root in all fields of our society since liberation is the inheritance of the spirit of May." "Continuous promotion of prosecution reform, judicial reform, and media reform Of course, we need to enter into a genuine people's livelihood reform that changes the concrete lives of citizens."
Namoo Wiki described the 5.18 Democratization Movement as an incident in which a large number of victims and victims occurred as a result of crimes against constitutional order by the military, etc. and unfair exercise of public power in response to the protests in Gwangju in May 1980.
President Yoon visited Gwangju together with the new government ministers, the presidential staff, and about 100 lawmakers on a special train, saying, “The spirit of May is the restoration of universal values, and the spirit of the constitution of liberal democracy itself.” He said on the 18th that bold economic achievements should blossom on the basis of the universal values of human rights and human rights.