South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee, elected in 1948, was forced to resign by a popular student-led uprising in 1960, ...
In 1980, violent clashes between government forces and pro-democracy demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju ...
Georgia is home to more than 150,000 people of Korean descent, and the political drama playing out in Seoul is being closely watched in metro Atlanta. Sunny Park, president of the American Korean ...
Support for impeachment was strong across all regions, with Gangwon province leading at 86.9%. Other notable figures included ...
Civic society moved quickly to denounce the president after the country experienced its first invocation of martial law since ...
That month, troops wielding batons and bayonets opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in the southwestern city of Gwangju. That massacre would become a pivotal moment in the country’s transition to ...
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 ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, accusing the country's opposition of paralyzing the government.
The biggest November snowstorm to hit South Korea’s capital in more than a half century has blanketed the capital, grounding ...