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Police raid president's office as South Korea crisis deepens after failed martial law

President Yoon Suk Yeol remains in office despite the probe and a bid to impeach him, raising questions about who’s in charge of the key U.S. ally.

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The troubled history of martial law, coups and toppled presidents many hoped South Korea had left behind

Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, when the assassination of President Park Chung-hee in 1979 led to a military coup and plunged the country into the iron grip of martial law.

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South Korea's History of Martial Law Revealed in Dramatic Pictures

During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political instability.

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International Writing Program participant Han Kang first South Korean Nobel Prize winner

International Writing Program participant Han Kang has globalized Korean history and introspection as the first South Korean recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. But of course, Korean culture ...

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K-pop light sticks fire up impeachment protests in South Korea

By Hyunsu Yim, Nicoco Chan, Minwoo Park SEOUL (Reuters) -While South Korean protesters have long employed songs, dances and ...

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North Korea and South Korea were once one country, the two separated because..., read surprising history here

Korea was one country until the imperialism policy surfaced a few decades before the World War 1. Korea was a culturally, ...

Why South Korea has a strong democracy

A sudden declaration of martial law in modern Korea is given short shrift by a democracy rooted in a centuries-old principle ...

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South Korean president’s fate uncertain as impeachment vote stalls

Ruling party lawmakers walked out of a vote to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, but voting remains open until a threshold of ...

Atrocities Made a South Korean City Infamous. A Novelist Made It Immortal.

The last time South Korea imposed martial law, Gwangju endured a deadly crackdown. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize-winning author, ...

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South Koreans on resort island Jeju march in call for President Yoon's resignation

Hundreds of South Koreans on Jeju Island converged on City Hall on Thursday night to demand that embattled South Korean ...

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