In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a ...
I immediately thought of 1980, and the fear and desperation we felt,” said a 60-year-old lawmaker who lived through the ...
South Korea faced shock as President Yoon declared martial law without issuing emergency alerts, leading to public outcry and ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...
The president’s short-lived declaration of a military emergency late Tuesday was young South Koreans’ first exposure to a ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, struggling amid low approval ratings, accused the opposition-held parliament of ...
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into ...
The opposition-controlled parliament overturned the the martial law edict, and his rivals on Wednesday took steps to impeach ...
Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...