The Gwangju Uprising of May 1980 was triggered by a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators by government troops. The photo shows the late Tadaomi Saito, a City News Section reporter, and the ...

In 1980, South Korea teetered on the edge of a far worse crackdown than the infamous Gwangju Uprising massacre. As the country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, a secret plan for all ...

In May 1980, a South Korean woman, who lost her adolescent son in Gwangju, is overcome with grief in the cemetery where his coffin had been brought. She pulls a handful of grass from the ground ...

Crowds of protesters held rallies on the historic street of the democratic uprising of May 18, 1980, in the southwestern city of Gwangju, Saturday, either opposing the removal of impeached ...