For three months every two years South Korea’s city of dissent, of hostility to the central government, of resentment of bureaucrats and politicians in Seoul, bursts into bloom as an Eden of the arts.

Chun Woo-won’s apology for his military dictator grandfather’s sins is Nehemiah in action. Midway through global K-pop sensation BTS’s 2015 track “Ma City,” J-Hope raps a lyric that’s both a personal ...

Courtright is an ocular epidemiologist and lives in Rancho Bernardo. For most Americans, May 18, 1980, is logged as the day of the largest volcanic eruption in the U.S. in our lifetime: Mount St.

On May 18, 1980, paratroopers under the control of General Chun Doo-hwan tortured, beat, and killed hundreds of pro-democracy activists in Gwangju, South Korea. The activists were protesting Chun's ...

Jeon Woo-won, a member of the family of former President Jeon Du-hwan who gained attention for exposing the family's corruption, will return to Korea in the early morning of the 28th. His first ...

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (UPI) --Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, a general who seized power in a 1979 military coup and brutally suppressed a pro-democracy uprising in the city of Gwangju a year ...

The Gwangju Uprising of May 18-27, 1980, was a pivotal step in South Korea’s march toward democratization. After protesting students were brutally attacked by soldiers, the people of Gwangju joined in ...

When the novel opens, 15-year old Dong-ho is helping to identify the dead protesters who were dragged from the streets and into a gymnasium hall. As in her acclaimed debut, The Vegetarian, Kang does ...

The recent news reports from Andijan, Uzbekistan, were troubling. The arrest and trial of local businessmen in the region sparked riots where there had been continuing civil unrest. The government of ...

A photo of a broadcasting car during the May 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement. Myung-Sook Cha is the third from the left in the car. South Korea is often cited as the only democratic nation of ...

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Seung-gon] Kim Jong-in, Emergency Committee Chairman of the United Future Party, visited Gwangju on the 19th and knelt down to apologize to the victims of the May 18 ...

The 12th Gwangju Biennale, which opened in the South Korean city on September 7, is a multi-headed beast organized by 11 curators that encompasses seven different exhibitions. It also comes with a ...