Yet, in the uncertain predawn hours Wednesday, many looked back to pivotal moments in South Korean history — the 1979 coup that installed a military dictatorship, and the deadly Gwangju Uprising ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.