Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is ...

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 ...

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an ...

But South Korea's liberal President Moon Jae-in, who came to power in 2017, pledged to re-open a probe into the massacre in Gwangju. After Ms Kim came forward in May alleging rape, a specific ...

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 ...

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 ...

But South Korea's liberal President Moon Jae-in, who came to power in 2017, pledged to re-open a probe into the massacre in Gwangju. After Ms Kim came forward in May alleging rape, a specific ...

Hundreds of works of art depict the Gwangju massacre, but they largely spoke to a domestic audience. Choe Yun’s grim novel "There a Petal Silently Falls" was adapted into the 1996 South Korean ...

A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before.