Tim Shorrock is a journalist based in Washington, DC, and grew up in Tokyo and Seoul during the Cold War. He has been writing about US-Korean relations since the 1970s for many publications in the United States, South Korea, and Japan. He is best known in Korea for exposing the previously hidden role of the United States in the 1980 military coup in South Korea that led to the Gwangju Massacre and Uprising of May 1980. His stories in the Journal of Commerce and the Sisa Journal were influential in shaping Korean views of the United States during that time. In 2015, he was named an honorary citizen of Gwangju for his work, and in 201,7 he donated his archival documents on the US role in 1979 and 1980 to the Gwangju 5.18 Archives. He is a correspondent for The Nation magazine in New York and Newstapa/Korea Center for Investigative Journalism (KCIJ) in Seoul. This is his second visit to Jeju.