Official Twitter Feed for the May 18 Foundation that promotes the spirit of #GwangjuUprising1980 & extends solidarity in #democratic #humanrights struggles.
Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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Condolences on the Passing of Basil W. J. Fernando
With Our Deepest Condolences,
We Will Never Forget Your Legacy.
#BasilFernando #GPHR #Condolences
๐ท Call for Nominations
The May 18 Foundation is pleased to announce the Call for Nominations for the 2027 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights.
๐ท Nomination Period
July 1 โ August 31, 2026
๐ฉJoin Statement:
Calling for Accountability for Starbucks Korea's "Tank Day" Campaign
๐Link
518.org/eng/board/read?boardโฆ
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๐ข 2027 ๊ด์ฃผ์ธ๊ถ์ ํ๋ณด์ ์ถ์ฒ ๊ณต๊ณ
๊ด์ฃผ์ธ๊ถ์์ 5ยท18๋ฏผ์ฃผํ์ด๋์ ์ ์ ์ ๊ณ์นํ์ฌ ์ธ๊ถ, ํํ, ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ ๊ตญ๋ด์ธ ์ธ์ฌ์ ๋จ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ ์ ยท์์ํ๋ ๊ตญ์ ์ธ๊ถ์์
๋๋ค.
์์ธํ ๋ด์ฉ์ 5ยท18๊ธฐ๋
์ฌ๋จ ํํ์ด์ง์์ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
*๋ฌธ์ : ๊ธ๋ก์ปฌ์ผํฐ(062-360-0535)
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๐ข 2026 ๊ตญ๋ด์๋ฏผ์ฌํ 5ยท18์์นด๋ฐ๋ฏธ ์ฐธ๊ฐ์ ๋ชจ์ง
"์์์ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์ ์ฐ๋์ ํ์ฅ์ผ๋ก!"
โ๏ธ ์ฐ์์ง์ญ : ํ๊ตญ
๐ฅ ๋ชจ์ง์ธ์ : 10๋ช
๋ด์ธ
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์ ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ : 2026. 6. 15.(์) ~ 6. 28.(์ผ) 18:00
์์ธํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ํฌ์คํฐ QR์ฝ๋ ๋๋ 5ยท18๊ธฐ๋
์ฌ๋จ ํํ์ด์ง ๊ณต๊ณ ๋ฌธ์ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
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๐ข Call for Signatories
Join our joint statement on Starbucks Korea's "Tank Day" campaign.
๐ forms.gle/kTaokTg4dim4r3Go8
Signatories open until June 16.
Statement to be released on June 17.
#May18 #Democracy #Starbucks
๐ฉUpdated Timeline of Key Development:
The May 18 Foundation's Response to Starbucks Korea's Marketing Campaign that Trivialized the May 18 Democratic Uprising
๐518.org/eng/board/read?boardโฆ
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๐ฉAction: Appeal Email to Starbucks Corporation
The Foundation Start the Protest Email Campaign regarding Starbucks Korea's May 18-related marketing controversy. Please Join Us!!
Email Sample ๐docs.google.com/document/d/1โฆ
Related Article
๐koreaherald.com/article/1074โฆ
The May 18 Foundation retweeted
Buenas noches a Venezuela, buenos dรญas desde Corea.
Empezรณ el Gwangju Democracy Forum 2026 y fui invitado a dar una conferencia en la tarde sobre los retos de una transiciรณn real y una democracia estable en Venezuela.
Gracias a The May 18 Foundation y su trabajo por la memoria.
The May 18 Foundation retweeted
๐๐๐ Now we are posting a pre-notice for applications to The May 18 Academy 2026.
๐Theme: Rebuilding Democracy for a New Era
๐Application Period: May 18 ~ May 20, 2026
๐How to Apply: Email(may18academy@gmail.com)
๐More Details: buly.kr/6XnzwkB
At the ceremony commemorating the May 18, President expressed his determination to have the 18 May events included in the preamble to the Constitution.
(Mr President, please do!)
#The46thAnniversaryoftheMay18DemocraticUprising
#May18
#May18Uprising #NationalCeremony
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[Statement(Korean)]
Starbucks Korea is facing controversy after running a promotion on 18 May featuring a tank reminiscent of the military regime and a phrase used by the police at the time of the death of the martyr Park Jong-cheol.
518.org/base/board/read?boarโฆ
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Sylvia Acan, 2026 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Winner
After 4 days schedule, she returned to her country, Uganda. We hope for a safe trip Sylvia, Ayan(Acanโs daughter), and Ivan.
Once again, CONGRATULATIONS!
#2026GPHR #GwangjuPrizeforHumanRights
#SylviaAcan
#GWVU
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For three days, the Foundation holds the GDF. We discussed about demcracy and human rights. Especially, we focused on the hegemonic rivalry between the United States and China and acountability of CSOs solidarity.
#2026GwangjuDemocracyForum #GDF
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Moreover, we talked about Gen-Zโs movements in S.Korea, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Mexico, Asian border challenges, and social disaster in Korea. The forum may be over, but our solidarity and our campaign continue.
#GDF2026
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๐๐๐ Now we are posting a pre-notice for applications to The May 18 Academy 2026.
๐Theme: Rebuilding Democracy for a New Era
๐Application Period: May 18 ~ May 20, 2026
๐How to Apply: Email(may18academy@gmail.com)
๐More Details: buly.kr/6XnzwkB
โAttentionโ We are opening the 2026 Democracy Fund call for applications!!
๐Application Period: Mar. 16 ~ Mar. 19
๐How to Apply: Email(may18project@gmail.com)
๐Field: 1) The May 18 Grassroot Support, 2) Emergency Support
๐More Details: 518.org/eng
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๊ฐ์๋ฐ๋ ๋ถ๋ 5.18์์ ๊ณต์์์ #๊ด์ฃผ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋๋ฒ์งธ๋
์ฌ์ ์ ์ค๋น(@yeoyu_seolbin), ์นด์คํ๋ ํฑ๊ณ , ๋ฐด๋ ์ ์ธ๋ฅ์ ๊ณต์ฐ๊ณผ ์ด๋ฒ ํ์ฌ์ ๊ธฐํ์์ด์ ์จ๋คํ ํฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๋์ด์ฃผ์ ์ต๊ณ ์๋(@iamgonne) ์ ๋ง ์ต์ค๐๐ป
์์ํ ๋ ์จ์ ๊ฐ์์ ์ฑ์์ฃผ์ ๋ถ๋ค โค๏ธ์
๋๋ค :)
*์ถ์ ๋ ๋๋ฌ์ง๋ง ์ ์๋ ๊ณ์๋ฉ๋๋ค!
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#๊ด์ฃผ์๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฒซ๋ ์ด ์์๋์์ต๋๋ค.
์ดํ์ฃผ๋, ๊ถ๋๋ฌด๋(@NamooKwon), ์ค๋์๋(@yoondw)์ ์ข์ ์์
๋ค, ์ ํ์ค๋๊ณผ ๋ณ์์ฃผ ๊ฐ๋
๋์ ์จ๋ค ํ ํฌ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ <๊น๊ตฐ>์ํ๊น์ง!
๋น๊ฐ ์ค๊ณ ํ๋ฆฐ ๋ ์จ์๋ 5.18์์ ๊ณต์์ ์ฐพ์์ฃผ์ ๊ด๊ฐ๋ถ๋ค ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค :)
๋นํ์๋ ํ์ฌ(์๋ค๊ณ ์์ฐฌํฉ๋๋ค๐)
(์ฑ๋ช
์) ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ ์์ ์ ์ํ๋กญ๊ฒ ํ ์ค์์ด ์ผ๋น์ ์ฆ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์ํ๋ผ
๐518.org/base/board/read?boarโฆ
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