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 ...
Protests demanding the president resign continue, as South Koreans are clearly shocked and outraged at Yoon’s attempt to ...
I immediately thought of 1980, and the fear and desperation we felt,” said a 60-year-old lawmaker who lived through the ...
When South Koreans came out to defend democracy in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history ...
Nobel Prize laureate in Literature Han Kang smiles as she receives a bouquet of flowers after her lecture titled Light and Thread at the Swedish Academy on December 7 (local time). AP Yonhap News ...
Days later, martial law was declared. South Korea is widely considered a peaceful beacon of democracy in Asia, but that ...
Insurgents gained control after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...