South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing possible impeachment for sending heavily armed soldiers into Seoul's streets ...
Top military officials offered the first inside account of when President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law. Mr. Yoon faces ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
Park, a 32-year-old office worker from Seoul, was watching TV at home on Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. when breaking news aired ...
South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee, elected in 1948, was forced to resign by a popular student-led uprising in 1960, ...
In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a ...
When the South Korean president declares martial law on Tuesday night, I am fairly drunk, as is much of the city. By sheer ...
I immediately thought of 1980, and the fear and desperation we felt,” said a 60-year-old lawmaker who lived through the ...
The political roller-coaster of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration then suspension of martial law was extreme even by the ...
The biggest November snowstorm to hit South Korea’s capital in more than a half century has blanketed the capital, grounding ...
Every edition of the Korean city’s storied biennale includes the invocation of the revolutionary “spirit of Gwangju” with a frequency bordering on zeal. Both city and exhibition have reason ...
South Korean author's Nobel win renews attention on Gwangju Uprising Pro-democracy demonstrations considered major to South Korea's modern history are back in the spotlight after Han Kang was ...