South Korea’s democracy faced a grave test on Wednesday as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ill-conceived decision to impose martial ...
The next year, he orchestrated a brutal military crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising in the southern city of Gwangju, killing at least 200 people. In the summer of 1987, massive street protests ...
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 ...
Confusion, rumor and fear spread through South Korea in the early morning hours Wednesday after the sudden declaration of ...
The biggest November snowstorm to hit South Korea’s capital in more than a half century has blanketed the capital, grounding ...