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 ...

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 ...

A citizen takes a photo of snow on trees at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, some 270 kilometers southwest of Seoul, on Dec. 28, 2024, when a snow alert was issued for the city.