Han Kang, this year's laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature, hopes her novel "Human Acts" will be an access road to understanding the May 18, 1980, pro-democracy people's uprising in Gwangju to ...

The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, ...

Han was nine years old when her family left Gwangju in January 1980, roughly four months before the 1980 May 18 Gwangju ...

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

Participants in the Gwangju Metropolitan City Conference, which included heads of local governments in Gwangju, university ...

The news that President Yoon had instated martial law on Tuesday hit me hard. The last time martial law was declared in South ...

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 ...

Various celebrations were held in Gwangju and South Jeolla Province to celebrate Han's historic Nobel Prize in Literature.In Jangheung, Jeollanam-do, where ...

Insurgents gained control after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread ...