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 ...

GWANGJU, South Korea--New South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called for consolidation in a speech on May 18 to mark a pro-democracy uprising that was squashed by the South Korean military 42 ...

Warfronts The 1980 Gwangju Uprising: How South Korea’s Martial Law Almost Led to Mass Bloodshed Posted: March 7, 2025 | Last updated: March 12, 2025 In 1980, South Korea teetered on the edge of ...

Liberal Democratic Party (DP) leader Lee Jae-myung on Tuesday headed to liberal stronghold Gwangju to pay his condolences to ...

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 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 ...

Spanning 23 years, Human Acts tells the story of Gwangju from different perspectives, portraying not only the events of the uprising, but its afterlife in the bodies and minds of participants.