Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea member Ryan Berkebile, a longtime urban explorer studying for a master s degree in digital humanities, is interning at the RAS office in Seoul. While RAS Korea has been working on digitalizing archival documents, books and monographs, journals, photographic images and so forth, Berkebile is helping RAS Korea set up platforms where the information can be accessed electronically.
There is a chance that history will record him as the first civilian president subject to a military insurrection since the introduction of the 1987 democratic Constitution.
[Korea Encounters] Trying to save a gov t from a coup in 1961
Posted : 2021-05-25 17:46
By Matt VanVolkenburg
At 3 a.m. on May 16, 1961, tanks and trucks carrying around 4,000 marines and soldiers began rolling into Seoul. Other than some military police on the Hangang Bridge, no one opposed them, and by 5 a.m. key buildings had been secured and KBS was broadcasting their message to the country. Tanks drive past the Bank of Korea, published in The Korea Times May 17, 1961. / Korea Times Archive Two key figures of the military junta, Chang Do-young and Park Chung-hee, published in The Korea Times May 18, 1961. / Korea Times Archive