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 ...
Candle-lit vigils and rallies were held across South Korea on Wednesday, a nation outraged and frustrated by the president’s ...
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing possible impeachment for sending heavily armed soldiers into Seoul’s streets ...
Within the span of a chaotic six hours, South Korea saw its president declare emergency martial law, be denounced by his own ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
Civic society moved quickly to denounce the president after the country experienced its first invocation of martial law since ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
When the South Korean president declares martial law on Tuesday night, I am fairly drunk, as is much of the city. By sheer ...
The president’s short-lived declaration of a military emergency late Tuesday was young South Koreans’ first exposure to a ...
Last year, a blockbuster movie gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, when ...