GWANGJU, South Korea--Local researchers here are examining hundreds of rare photos taken by a Japanese photographer of protesters brutally oppressed by the military in 1980 in an uprising in South ...

Published in 2014, it was inspired by the democracy uprising in Gwangju on May 18, 1980. Under martial law, the military attacked pro-democracy citizens, killing and injuring many. In the novel ...

The south-western city of Gwangju was the centre of an uprising against martial law in ... I feel inexplicably terrible" he said. In May 1980, after South Korea's military leaders declared martial ...

It is 40 years since Choi Jung-ja saw her husband, who has been missing since South Korea's military dictatorship killed hundreds of people when they crushed the May 18 Gwangju pro-democracy ...

The Virginia state flag features the Roman goddess Virtus defeating a tyrant, accompanied by the Latin phrase “Sic semper ...

"Human Acts" draws upon the democratization uprising of May 18, 1980, in Gwangju, the city where Han grew up. US finalizes $4.7b in CHIPS Act subsidy to Samsung Electronics US finalizes $4.7b in ...

The actor’s words, tinged with disbelief, drew a parallel between the events depicted in the film -- based on South Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Uprising -- and the reappearance of martial law in the ...

There are people whose lives have been shaken by the Gwangju Video On May of 1980 the course of their ... people the 40th anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising and the pursuit to trace the missing ...

1980, pro-democracy people's uprising in Gwangju to many people. "I was all the more cautious since this novel depicts a real incident," the South Korean author said during a meeting with Korean ...

By the time when ‘Seoul Spring’ longing for democratization came to nothing due to ‘Retreat from Seoul Station’ in 1980, there were a series of peaceful protests in Gwangju, Jeolla Province.

will explore the democratic spirit of Gwangju and the historical significance of the 1980 pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju.