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President Lee was overcome with emotion and shed tears while delivering a commemorative address marking the anniversary of the Buma Uprising, pausing as he read the prepared remarks, according to a photograph of the moment published on the presidential media channel.
The image, published October 16, shows the president visibly moved during the reading of the speech commemorating the 1979 pro-democracy uprising, an event remembered in Korea as a landmark in the country's democratization movement.
The claim that the president choked up mid-speech — described in the original report as tears he could not hold back — is supported by the published photograph of the occasion.
The event took place within an official commemorative program for the uprising's anniversary, during which the president read prepared remarks honoring the historical significance of the movement.
Beyond the fact of the emotional moment during the address, further details about the speech's content or the full commemorative program were not included in the available material.
The president's display of emotion during the Buma Uprising commemoration is true.
