One of the darkest moments in the history of South Korea, the Kwangju Uprising has had a long-lasting impact on domestic Korean politics. What began as a mass protest by students and residents of the city of Kwangju in South Cholla Province against...

(1999 pop. 1.3 million). Kwangju is the capital of South Cholla Province (Cholla namdo) in southwestern Republic of Korea (South Korea). It has a total area of 744.22 square kilometers. The administratively autonomous Kwangju Metropolitan City,...

Gwangju Metropolitan City is the sixth largest city in South Korea. Gwangju is a designated metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government's Home Minister. The city was also the capital of South Jeolla Province until the provincial...

Lee Ok-seon's three years as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers began on a summer day when two men snatched her off a street in broad daylight. Before she realized what was happening, she was on a train to China, where humiliation and brutal beatings...

She was an up-and-coming South Korean curator nicknamed the "art world's Cinderella" with a doctorate from Yale on her resume.That was before Shin Jeong-ah's academic credentials were revealed as false, sending her into hiding and sparking a wave of revelations of faked diplomas that are...

Thai police said Wednesday they were trying to trace a Canadian school teacher accused of pedophilia through his network of friends in the country and expressed confidence he would not escape their dragnet.Christopher Paul Neil, 32, is the target of a global manhunt for allegedly...

A suspected pedophile being hunted by Interpol contributed to an online forum for teachers, and police say they believe he wrote under a pseudonym about the risks of catching HIV from oral sex and how to erase pornographic computer files "so no one will see."Two...