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

For now, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has survived an impeachment attempt for sending heavily armed soldiers into ...

"I told myself I would write a novel that takes another step towards light and warmth [...] but realized that something ...

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

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

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

When South Koreans came out to defend democracy in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history ...

The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, told its story in “Human Acts.” By Victoria Kim Reporting from ...

In 1973, when Shin Jae-hyung was a teenager, he was out in the streets being teargassed, fighting against South Korea's ...

Within the span of a chaotic six hours, South Korea saw its president declare emergency martial law, be denounced by his own ...

Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...

Nobel Prize laureate in Literature Han Kang smiles as she receives a bouquet of flowers after her lecture titled Light and Thread at the Swedish Academy on December 7 (local time). AP Yonhap News ...