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 ...

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 former South Jeolla Provincial Office, a key landmark of the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising, was partially demolished in 2015 before protests halted its destruction. Now, after years of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The demonstrations underscore the evolving political dynamics in Gwangju, a region that has maintained strong progressive affiliations since the May 18 Uprising of 1980. The city has long been ...