Participants in the Gwangju Metropolitan City Conference, which included heads of local governments in Gwangju, university ...
The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, ...
Eight members of the Gwangju Metropolitan Government and the basic council of the Democratic Party of Korea shaved their ...
Director Park Chan-wook has spoken out on the political turmoil surrounding martial law and the push for President Yoon Suk ...
Insurgents gained control after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread ...
The East Asian democracy’s long history of military rule loomed large for the public as President Yoon Suk Yeol faced backlash against his emergency martial law.
Han was nine years old when her family left Gwangju in January 1980, roughly four months before the 1980 May 18 Gwangju ...
In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a ...
In May 1980, a South Korean woman, who lost her adolescent son in Gwangju, is overcome with grief in the cemetery where his ...
South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s ...
I immediately thought of 1980, and the fear and desperation we felt,” said a 60-year-old lawmaker who lived through the ...
An interactive exhibition of ceramics from the Joseon era (1392-1910) to Korea’s 1945 independence from the Japanese colonial ...