The students had gathered to protest former Presidents Roh Tae-woo and Chun Doo-hwan's alleged involvement in the Gwangju massacre in 1980. (Kim Jae-Hwan / AFP/Getty Images) ...

Memories of the Gwangju massacre are immortalized in a large museum by a cemetery in which most of those killed are buried and in another museum in the former governor’s building, where the protesters ...

She wrote a book about state violence, just as Kang did in 2014 with “Human Acts,” a novel about the 1980 Gwangju massacre of student protesters. Images of human atrocity still haunt Kyungha.

In her books, she said, it was never her intention to turn from one tragic chapter of modern Korean history to another. But after “Human Acts,” the Gwangju novel, was published in 2014, she ...

She was not in Gwangju to witness the massacre of hundreds of students and unarmed civilians by the military in May 1980, after a coup d'etat.

‘Memorizing’ the Scars of South Korea’s Gwangju Massacre Duke Kwon Chun Woo-won’s apology for his military dictator grandfather’s sins is Nehemiah in action.

She has burrowed into two of South Korea’s darkest episodes: the 1980 massacre in the city of Gwangju, which crushed a pro-democracy movement; and an earlier, even deadlier chapter on Jeju ...