When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, 70-year-old Lee Chul-Woo was ...
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 ...
South Korean author Han Kang, this year's Nobel laureate in literature, expressed her shock Friday over the martial law ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...
The president’s short-lived declaration of a military emergency late Tuesday was young South Koreans’ first exposure to a ...
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, ...
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 ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...