Yun Sang-won

Yoon Sang-won (; 19 August 195027 May 1980) was a South Korean activist and spokesperson for the citizen's militia during the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement. Yoon was killed on the last day of the uprising and has since become a symbol in South Korea as a martyr for the democratization movement.

Biography The former South Jeolla Province Provincial Office where Joon and others were killed on May 27, 1980. Yoon Sang-won was born in Gwangsan District, Gwangju, and attended Chonnam National University in the 1970s. Opposed to the military dictatorship under Park Chung Hee, Yoon quit his job at a bank in 1978 to focus on democracy activism. The Gwangju Democratization Movement ended that day, but it was seen as a precursor to the 1987 June Struggle that led to the country's first free and democratic elections later that year within the wider democratization movement known as minjung.