In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a ...
The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, ...
Yokohama F Marinos moved top of the Asian Champions League Elite standings with a 4-0 win over Central Coast Mariners on ...
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 ...
A surge in dramas and literature dealing with the country's political trauma has helped older generations keep the memory of ...
Some were blockbusters featuring South Korea's biggest stars, such as last year's 12.12 The Day, a historical drama starring ...
South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s ...
When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, 70-year-old Lee Chul-Woo was ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
In May 1980, a South Korean woman, who lost her adolescent son in Gwangju, is overcome with grief in the cemetery where his ...
Han Kang’s 2014 novel Human Acts follows the death of a young boy during the student uprising in Gwangju in 1980 after ...