When South Koreans came out to defend democracy in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history ...
In 1973, when Shin Jae-hyung was a teenager, he was out in the streets being teargassed, fighting against South Korea's ...
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 ...
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 ...
Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...
The political roller-coaster of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration then suspension of martial law was extreme even by the ...
Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...