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 ...

Gwangju Metropolitan City, a busy regional hub of 1.4 million, 270 kilometres south of Seoul, is set to take on a new identity as South Korea’s home of artificial intelligence (AI). As part of ...

The Gwangju Uprising is considered a pivotal moment in South Korea’s move away from military dictatorship to democracy. In the uprising that began on May 18, 1980, about 240 people were either ...