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

Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...

South Korea became a democracy only in the late 1980s, and military intervention in civilian affairs is still a touchy ...

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century’s most remarkable economic success stories, becoming a developed, globally connected ...

Yoon has said he did nothing inappropriate. During the dictatorships that emerged as South Korea rebuilt from the 1950-53 Korean War, leaders occasionally proclaimed martial law that allowed them ...

The United States has 28,500 servicemembers stationed in South Korea as a legacy of the 1950-1953 Korean War. Yoon’s martial law declaration was the first of its kind in more than 40 years.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared ... and deported Korean Americans based in the United States in the 1950s. The heavy-handed application of the notorious “National Security ...