A photograph held in private hands for 40 years shows two Asahi Shimbun reporters relaxing in a candle-lit room at an inn in the South Korean city of Gwangju while covering a popular uprising that ...

A sea of people wearing black, waiting for the remains of their loved ones, throng Muan’s airport, two days after crash.

The provincial Korean city of Gwangju, about an hour and a half south of Seoul, entered the biennial sweepstakes ten years ago. Bearing the scars of a government-led massacre of student and citizen ...

I'm going to parliament, no matter what." - Gwangju massacre - Born and raised in the southwestern city of Gwangju, Shin's first experience with dictatorship came in 1972, when then-president Park ...

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Yoon’s short-lived declaration triggered painful memories of the 1980 Gwangju massacre, when hundreds of pro-democracy activists, most of them university students, were killed by special forces.

Yoon’s short-lived declaration triggered painful memories of the 1980 Gwangju massacre, when hundreds of pro-democracy activists, most of them university students, were killed by special forces.

SIMON: Difficult questions about humans. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize winner. Her new novel, "We Do Not Part," now in English, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. Thank you so much for being ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - When President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, for the first time in South Korea since 1980, 70-year-old Lee Chul-Woo was reminded of his youth, much of it spent protesting ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's attempted martial law declaration sparked a wave of collective resistance from ...

I’m going to parliament, no matter what.” – Gwangju massacre – Born and raised in the southwestern city of Gwangju, Shin’s first experience with dictatorship came in 1972, when then ...