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 ...
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing possible impeachment for sending heavily armed soldiers into Seoul’s streets ...
The last time South Korea was under martial law, Chung Chin-ook was in his first year of high school, more than 40 years ago.
Candle-lit vigils and rallies were held across South Korea on Wednesday, a nation outraged and frustrated by the president’s ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
Lawmakers filed a motion to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol, reflecting the fury over his audacious response to political ...
The fact that Park Ji-won of the Democratic Party of Korea has gone through all 17 martial laws since the inauguration of the ...
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 ...
The opposition-controlled parliament overturned the the martial law edict, and his rivals on Wednesday took steps to impeach ...
Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...