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 ...

“I immediately thought of 1980, and the fear and desperation we felt,” said a 60-year-old lawmaker who lived through the massacre of protesters in Gwangju. By Victoria Kim The last time South ...

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 ...

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 ...

Han was nine years old when her family left Gwangju in January 1980, roughly four months before the 1980 May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement and massacre. At 12 years old, she encountered a photo ...

Chung was convicted in 1997 by the Supreme Court for his involvement in the Dec. 12, 1979, military coup and the bloody crackdown on the Gwangju massacre and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

The country's sixth-largest city of Gwangju on April 7 announced support projects for private organizations that seek to protect the labor rights and improve the welfare of foreign workers. In ...