Springtime is a nationwide celebration in South Korea. After emerging from the winter freeze, many are anxious to get back to the thawed-out mountains or enjoy the cherry blossom trees ...

The book describes the Gwangju Uprising, when South Korea’s military violently suppressed the pro-democracy movement in the southern city of Gwangju from May 18 to 27, 1980. “Some lyrics of ...

who has been missing since South Korea's military dictatorship killed hundreds of people when they crushed the May 18 Gwangju pro-democracy Movement, a scar that burns in the country's political p ...

One factor in that, Kang says, is the events of May 1980, when South Korea's then-ruling military junta sent troops to crush pro-democracy protests in the city of Gwangju, killing around 200 ...

The May 18 Democratic Uprising Archives, a museum set up by Gwangju city government to collect ... journalists played in reporting on the movement. At the ceremony on May 24, Hong In-hwa, head ...

It is the home of the Gwangju Democracy movement, the late former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-jung. But for Linton's family, it has been home since his great-grandfather's days.

Children from the Buk District local government office workplace daycare center in Gwangju enjoy the colorful ... park commemorating the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement at the main gate ...

with one student group stating that “democracy in this land was built on countless lives.” Referencing historic flashpoints in Busan, Masan and Gwangju, students noted that “during the six ...

This year is the 30th anniversary of the Gwangju Democratization Movement Though the country commemorates the event as the official historical records it does not include any real accounts of the ...

The movie is a compilation of the movie "Wilderness" in which a member of the airborne unit who killed a girl during the Gwangju Democratization Movement burned himself to death with remorse and ...