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 ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing possible impeachment for sending heavily armed soldiers into Seoul's streets ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, struggling amid low approval ratings, accused the opposition-held parliament of ...
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 ...
The president’s short-lived declaration of a military emergency late Tuesday was young South Koreans’ first exposure to a ...
Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, accusing the country's opposition of paralyzing the government.
Last year, a blockbuster movie gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, when ...