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 separate rally near Gyeongbokgung Station, also in the vicinity of Gwanghwamun, saw an estimated 5,000 people demanding ...

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 south-western city of Gwangju was the centre of an uprising against martial law in South Korea, imposed after a military coup in 1979 led by General Chun Doo-hwan. A brutal military crackdown ...

As a result, Gwangju Mayor Kang Ki-jung decided to open a joint memorial altar at the May 18 Democratic Square and run a one-week mourning period from the 4th of next month. Mayor Kang Ki-jung ...

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 ...

Protesters from opposite ends of the political spectrum braved frigid conditions to gather for massive rallies across the ...

South Korean protesters from opposite ends of the political spectrum braved frigid conditions to gather for massive rallies acros ...