The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, ...

The news that President Yoon had instated martial law on Tuesday hit me hard. The last time martial law was declared in South ...

In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a ...

Insurgents gained control after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread ...

Ordinary Koreans’ response to the threat of martial law is a reminder that democracy was not achieved top-down in South Korea ...

On the evening of Dec. 3, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law to the nation's shock. “Are we reliving the ...

I immediately thought of 1980, and the fear and desperation we felt,” said a 60-year-old lawmaker who lived through the ...

Han was nine years old when her family left Gwangju in January 1980, roughly four months before the 1980 May 18 Gwangju ...

Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment vote, but his presidency is in a “vegetative” state, analysts say, with government and ...

Protests demanding the president resign continue, as South Koreans are clearly shocked and outraged at Yoon’s attempt to ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol’s surprise martial law declaration prompted a swift response from protesters schooled in previous ...

"How dare you do this to our country?" he thought. "You madman, who do you think you are to ruin this country? I'm going to ...