When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, 70-year-old Lee Chul-Woo was ...
The episode has triggered memories of dramatic events from the country’s recent past: a military coup in 1979 and subsequent massacre of protesting students in the south-western city of Gwangju; the ...
"I told myself I would write a novel that takes another step towards light and warmth [...] but realized that something ...
When South Koreans came out to defend democracy in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history ...
In 1973, when Shin Jae-hyung was a teenager, he was out in the streets being teargassed, fighting against South Korea's ...
(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) FILE - Armed South Korean government martial law troops guard captured rebels in Gwangju (Kwangju), ...
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A surge in dramas and literature dealing with the country's political trauma has helped older generations keep the memory of ...
South Korean author Han Kang, who won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, on Friday said she was "shocked" by the political crisis in her country after the president briefly imposed martial law.
South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s ...
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, ...