Shareholders in Kwangju have attacked their stockbrokers and called for the market to be closed so that they would lose no more money.
Cholla, on the other hand, was left out in the cold and its people stigmatised and disadvantaged, along with their long-term champion and Mr Roh's predecessor, Kim Dae-jung.This Dae-jung.Thisicalargelyineered divide became more visceral after the country's military leadership brutally suppressed a 1980 rebellion in Kwangju, the capital of south Cholla.
Until recently its subsidiary in Cholla was known as plain Kwangju Electronics, for fear that the Samsung name would remind the locals of that piece of discrimination (although now the name has been added back in).
While the generals who had ordered the 1980 massacre of rioters in Kwangju were still in power, candidates of the ruling party who visited Kim Dae Jung's home region were pelted with stones and bottles.
And unlike in Seoul, where public sentiment was still inflamed by a massacre of protesters in Kwangju eight years earlier, there is no particular rallying cause in China today.
South Korea is divided administratively into the nine provinces (do or to) of Cheju, North Chŏlla, South Chŏlla, North Ch'ungch'ŏng, South Ch'ungch'ŏng, Kangwŏn, Kyŏnggi, North Kyŏngsang, and South Kyŏngsang; and the metropolitan cities (kwangyŏksi) of Seoul, Pusan, Taegu, Inch'ŏn, Kwangju, Taejŏn, and Ulsan.
Kwangju was the site of an armed uprising against the newly installed military government of Chun Doo Hwan in May 1980.
Kwangju is also a centre for culture and art.
In May the military under Chun's leadership dropped all pretense of civilian rule, declared martial law, and brutally suppressed democratic civilian opposition in the city of Kwangju.
The traditional practice of kimjang, in which villages and families devoted several days in the autumn to preparing the winter supply of kimchi, is celebrated in such annual kimjang festivals as that held in the southwestern city of Kwangju.
Kwangju, also spelled Gwangju, city and provincial capital, South Chŏlla (South Jeolla) do (province), southwestern South Korea.
