On the evening of Dec. 3, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law to the nation's shock. “Are we reliving the ...
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 ...
"I told myself I would write a novel that takes another step towards light and warmth [...] but realized that something ...
Protests demanding the president resign continue, as South Koreans are clearly shocked and outraged at Yoon’s attempt to ...
Days later, martial law was declared. South Korea is widely considered a peaceful beacon of democracy in Asia, but that ...
When South Koreans came out to defend democracy in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
A surge in dramas and literature dealing with the country's political trauma has helped older generations keep the memory of ...
In 1973, when Shin Jae-hyung was a teenager, he was out in the streets being teargassed, fighting against South Korea's ...
Nobel Prize laureate in Literature Han Kang smiles as she receives a bouquet of flowers after her lecture titled Light and Thread at the Swedish Academy on December 7 (local time). AP Yonhap News ...
Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...