Han was nine years old when her family left Gwangju in January 1980, roughly four months before the 1980 May 18 Gwangju ...
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 ...
When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, 70-year-old Lee Chul-Woo was ...
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 ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
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 ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...