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SEOUL (Reuters) - When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, ...
South Korean author and Nobel Literature Prize winner Han Kang said on Friday she had been deeply shocked by the news of ...
The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, ...
South Korea’s democracy faced a grave test on Wednesday as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ill-conceived decision to impose martial ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
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 ...