"Until then, I hadn’t considered writing about Gwangju," Han said during the live-streamed lecture at The Swedish Academy in ...
Anchor] For the first time in Korea, writer Han Kang has received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and interest in reading is ...
The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, ...
Anchor] Not only were rallies held in downtown Seoul, but also throughout the country.As the impeachment bill failed to cross ...
When South Koreans came out to defend democracy in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history ...
A surge in dramas and literature dealing with the country's political trauma has helped older generations keep the memory of ...
In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces the greatest challenge of his brief but chequered political career, despite ...
I immediately thought of 1980, and the fear and desperation we felt,” said a 60-year-old lawmaker who lived through the ...
South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s ...
Yoon has been called a democrat. He is not. Along with banning me, he has declared martial law, stormed the legislature and cut social programs.
In May 1980, a South Korean woman, who lost her adolescent son in Gwangju, is overcome with grief in the cemetery where his ...