When South Koreans came out to defend democracy in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history ...
Days later, martial law was declared. South Korea is widely considered a peaceful beacon of democracy in Asia, but that ...
When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, 70-year-old Lee Chul-Woo was ...
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 ...
A surge in dramas and literature dealing with the country's political trauma has helped older generations keep the memory of ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
The president’s short-lived declaration of a military emergency late Tuesday was young South Koreans’ first exposure to a ...
Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol backed down on his declaration of martial law but the tumultuous six hours recalled the country’s dark pre-democracy period.