I immediately thought of 1980, and the fear and desperation we felt,” said a 60-year-old lawmaker who lived through the ...
In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing possible impeachment for sending heavily armed soldiers into Seoul's streets ...
The political roller-coaster of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration then suspension of martial law was extreme even by the ...
Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
The president’s short-lived declaration of a military emergency late Tuesday was young South Koreans’ first exposure to a ...
Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, accusing the country's opposition of paralyzing the government.
The opposition-controlled parliament overturned the the martial law edict, and his rivals on Wednesday took steps to impeach ...