When South Koreans came out to defend democracy in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history ...
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 President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing possible impeachment for sending heavily armed soldiers 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 ...
When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, 70-year-old Lee Chul-Woo was ...
Han Kang, the 2024 Nobel laureate in literature, speaks during a press conference at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on ...
The political roller-coaster of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration then suspension of martial law was extreme even by the ...
Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
I was in a state of shock. While writing ‘Human Acts,’ I spent a lot of time researching the events leading up to the ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, accusing the country's opposition of paralyzing the government.