When Han Kang was nine years old, a massacre of civilians by soldiers in her hometown of Gwangju drastically reshaped the course of South Korean history. Sometimes referred to as the Tiananmen ...

But South Korea's liberal President Moon Jae-in, who came to power in 2017, pledged to re-open a probe into the massacre in Gwangju. After Ms Kim came forward in May alleging rape, a specific ...

Han's latest novel — which will be published in English next year — covers a similar instance of historical pain in Korea, with a focus on the Jeju Island uprising. When Han Kang was nine ...

A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before.

The nine-year-old Han Kang had left Gwangju four months before the massacre, when her family ... aged 12, she found a memorial book of photographs, curated by foreign journalists, the copy hidden ...