South Korea teetered on the edge of a far worse crackdown than the infamous Gwangju Uprising massacre. As the country ...

In a nation haunted by a repressive past and threats from North Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s tales fuse the personal with an inescapable politics ...

Seoul central district court in South Korea on Friday cancelled the arrest of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol in connection ...

Scenes of armed soldiers attempting to enter the parliament building shook South Korea and were a reminder of the country's dictatorship in the 1980s. Soldiers try to enter South Korea's ...

Yoon’s December 3 decree threw South Korea into turmoil when he banned political ... War until its transition to democracy in the late 1980s. Even several members of Yoon’s own conservative ...

In 2004, South Korea's GDP surpassed one trillion dollars ... its grip on the economy amid the political changes of the 1980s and 1990s. The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 hit South Korea ...

Set in 1980s South Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s book “Snowy Day and Other Stories” hangs in the shadow of the violent Gwangju massacre. By Camille Bromley Camille Bromley is a writer and editor ...

Old Korean cars like Pony and Galloper command millions in secondhand market Korean classic automobiles attract high prices ...

South Korea is one of the great success stories of ... "We saw the political turmoil in 1980 and 1987 but it was kind of military leadership," he said.

Kang’s novels offer an important lens for understanding Korean history and politics, and the grief and strength of the Korean people.

20 (UPI) --In a significant departure from its traditional political alignment, Gwangju, South Korea, witnessed an unprecedented ... in the city since the 1980 Gwangju Uprising.