Investigators seeking to detain Yoon Suk Yeol in relation to his attempt to institute martial law scuffled with security ...

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

1994 -- Bobby Hall, a South Korea-based U.S. Air Force pilot, returns to Seoul via the truce village of Panmunjom after making a forced landing in North Korea and being detained for 13 days. 1998 -- ...

During the massacre, hundreds were also arrested and ... and was sent to a prison in Gwangju, about 165 miles south of Seoul on the mainland. On Dec. 24, 1949, his family received notification ...

Yang Cheon-jong, originally from Yeondong in Jeju City, had fled his home with his family after their house was burned down during the massacre and was arrested in March 1949, according to the ...

After Yoon’s announcement, editors and staff at the two largest local newspapers in Gwangju, the site of the 1980 massacre, barricaded their newsrooms and rushed to finalize and print copies to ...

3 martial law crisis and the events of the May 1980 Gwangju massacre. “Lawmakers of the People Power Party,” Park said, “grasp the hem of history’s robe as it passes through this door.

Referencing South Korea’s painful history, including the Gwangju massacre of May 1980, the bishops warned against actions that could undermine the country’s hard-earned democracy. “Our democracy was ...

Many protesters were killed, injured, or raped. Enraged by the violent attacks, hundreds of citizens of Gwangju joined the protests and attempted to resist the aggression by robbing armories and ...