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 ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
Civic society moved quickly to denounce the president after the country experienced its first invocation of martial law since ...
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing possible impeachment for sending heavily armed soldiers into Seoul’s streets ...
The impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk-yeol claims he exceeded his constitutional powers by imposing martial law ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
Candle-lit vigils and rallies were held across South Korea on Wednesday, a nation outraged and frustrated by the president’s ...
Within the span of a chaotic six hours, South Korea saw its president declare emergency martial law, be denounced by his own ...
The opposition-controlled parliament overturned the the martial law edict, and his rivals on Wednesday took steps to impeach ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, accusing the country's opposition of paralyzing the government.
Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...