"Until then, I hadn’t considered writing about Gwangju," Han said during the live-streamed lecture at The Swedish Academy in ...
When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, 70-year-old Lee Chul-Woo was ...
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 ...
When South Koreans came out to defend democracy in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
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 ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
In 1973, when Shin Jae-hyung was a teenager, he was out in the streets being teargassed, fighting against South Korea's ...
Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...