A History of Korea (109 page)

Kwangjong, King of Kory
,
40

Kwangju,
264
,
279

Kwangju Uprising,
262
,
264–65
,
269
,
272

beginning of,
263

significance of in South Korean democratization,
264

Ky
n Hw
n,
32
,
34
,
35

Ky
ngguk taej
n
(Chos
n dynastic code),
76

Ky
ngju,
20
,
24
,
26

Ky
ngs
ng.
See
Seoul

Ky
ngs
ng Textile Company,
165

labor,
27
,
152
,
198
,
233
,
237

in South Korea,
231

mobilization of,
220

wage,
135

labor laws,
240

labor movement,
180
,
202
,
232

labor unions,
273

labor, forced,
189
,
192

laborers,
136
,
187
,
240
,
242
,
263
,
265

Lady Chang (Chang H
ibin),
88
,
92
,
96

as representative of native customs,
93

background,
96

characterizations of,
91

execution of,
89
,
91

giving birth to a son,
91

Lady Yi (mother of Sin Saimdang),
76
,
77
,
78

“Lament of Wailing”,
156

Land
(
T’oji
),
243

land reform,
204
,
217

Latin America,
271

Latter Paekche,
34–35
,
38

Latter Three Kingdoms,
33

Lee Myung-bak,
276
,
280

legitimacy, political,
18
,
21

Lelang Commandery,
4
,
6
,
47

LG Group,
165
,
232
,
239

Liao River,
6
,
7

Liaodong,
7
,
8
,
22

liberation from Japanese colonial rule (1945),
136
,
160
,
163
,
184–86
,
194
,
196–97
,
202–04
,
217
,
223–24
,
229
,
232
,
245
,
259