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 ...
Civic society moved quickly to denounce the president after the country experienced its first invocation of martial law since ...
Candle-lit vigils and rallies were held across South Korea on Wednesday, a nation outraged and frustrated by the president’s ...
Published in 2014, it was inspired by the democracy uprising in Gwangju on May 18, 1980. Under martial law, the military ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing possible impeachment for sending heavily armed soldiers into Seoul’s streets ...
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 ...
As if the resurgent political opposition were not enough of a problem, President Yoon has to face up to the hostility of ...
The president’s short-lived declaration of a military emergency late Tuesday was young South Koreans’ first exposure to a ...
Last year, a blockbuster movie gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, when ...