In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a military dictator and triggered a deadly uprising.
Yoon’s martial-law decree. In writing “Human Acts,” she said, she had spent a lot of time studying how martial law was imposed before the Gwangju massacre. “For me to witness a similar ...
In May 1980, a South Korean woman, who lost her adolescent son in Gwangju, is overcome with grief in the cemetery where his coffin had been brought. She pulls a handful of grass from the ground ...
In writing Human Acts, she said, she had spent a lot of time studying how martial law was imposed before the Gwangju massacre. “For me to witness a similar situation unfold in real time before ...
Lee, a retired teacher, recalled how troops in Seoul entered the grounds of the university where he was studying with machine guns and tanks during the Gwangju massacre. When troops were sent to ...
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 ...