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 ...

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 south-western city of Gwangju was the centre of an uprising against martial law in South Korea, imposed after a military coup in 1979 led by General Chun Doo-hwan. A brutal military crackdown ...

The story of the “Gwangju White Papers” and “Beyond Death,” the first underground handouts to discuss the Gwangju Uprising.

"I hoped this book would be something like an access road to understanding the Gwangju uprising." "Human Acts," one of the major novels by the 54-year-old writer, tells the story of Dong-ho ...

The archdiocesan territory is known for its traditional arts. Gwangju (Kwangju) was the place of the May 18 Democratic Uprising in 1980 against the military coup. St. Joseph’s Church in Lahore is the ...

This is a memorable scene from “A Taxi Driver,” which is based on a true story that occurred during the Gwangju Uprising in 1980. While local news companies are banned from reporting freely ...

The South Korean city of Gwangju will commemorate the May 18th 1980 uprising in style They will stage a grand reenactment of the scenes of the May uprising 25 years earlier when martial law troops ...

There are people whose lives have been shaken by the Gwangju Video On May of 1980 the ... these people the 40th anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising and the pursuit to trace the missing 4 hours ...