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 ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
"Just as many other Koreans would have been over the past couple of days, I was shocked that the martial law was declared in the year 2024," she told the press in Stockholm on Friday. "I hope that [we ...
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, ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
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, ...