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 ...
South Korea faced shock as President Yoon declared martial law without issuing emergency alerts, leading to public outcry and ...
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 ...
The political roller-coaster of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration then suspension of martial law was extreme even by the ...
Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...
Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...
Martial law has a dark history in South Korea During ... crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising in the southern city of Gwangju, killing at least 200 people. In the summer of 1987, massive street ...
The 1980 martial law period is most notorious for the Gwangju Uprising and subsequent military crackdown. The incident has since been depicted in South Korean films and literature. While there had ...
“Martial law? I thought it was deepfake content ... crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising in the southern city of Gwangju, killing at least 200 people. In the summer of 1987, massive street ...