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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 ...

The last thing Lee grabbed was his ID. He’d heard about the horrors of the 1980 massacre in Gwangju as a college student in that city in the late 1980s. One thing he’d learned was that many of the ...

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

This transition was made possible by a three-decade-long movement for democratisation. The Gwangju massacre was central in intensifying this movement during the 1980s. On 3rd December last year, it ...

I'm going to parliament, no matter what." - Gwangju massacre - Born and raised in the southwestern city of Gwangju, Shin's first experience with dictatorship came in 1972, when then-president Park ...

Gwangju Metropolitan City, a busy regional hub of 1.4 million, 270 kilometres south of Seoul, is set to take on a new identity as South Korea’s home of artificial intelligence (AI). As part of ...

She has burrowed into two of South Korea’s darkest episodes: the 1980 massacre in the city of Gwangju, which crushed a pro-democracy movement; and an earlier, even deadlier chapter on Jeju ...

Gwangju’s battle to restore historic landmark nearly over GWANGJU -- In the heart of Gwangju, a decade-long struggle to ...