Featured History 27 April 2023 Syngman Rhee, Mass Murderer Conservatives attempt to elevate South Korea's first president glosses over the fact that he was more akin to Pol Pot.
Featured History 22 April 2023 Grandson of Chun Doo-hwan Visits Gwangju for Atonement Chun U-won became the first member of the dictator Chun Doo-hwan’s family to visit Gwangju to apologize for the mass murder.
Featured Japan 17 April 2023 Japan Announces New History Textbooks Denying Forced Labor Textbooks also removed references to the 1923 Kanto Massacre that killed 6k Koreans.
Featured History 13 March 2023 Twenty Years on, No Closure in the Daegu Subway Disaster Rather than improving public safety, some have learned to attack the victims.
Featured Conservatives 8 March 2023 Thae Yong-ho Falsely Claims Kim Il-Sung Caused the Jeju Massacre Former North Korean defector refused to retract his statement, based on his knowledge from North Korean education.
Featured History 6 March 2023 Court Orders Reparations for Vietnamese War Crime Victims The court’s decision is the first ruling by the South Korean judiciary to recognize the country’s responsibility for war crimes committed in the course of the Vietnam War.
Featured Conservatives 26 December 2022 Yoon Administration Takes Jeju Massacre Out of History Textbooks Ministry of Education justified the move as "exploring the foundation of the Republic of Korea based on liberal democracy."
Featured History 21 October 2022 Supreme Court Orders Reparations for Sex Workers Serving US Military Reminiscent of Imperial Japan's "Comfort Women," the organized sex trade near US bases in Korea involved horrendous human rights violations.
Featured History 17 September 2022 Brothers Welfare Center Officially Recognized as State-Sanctioned Human Rights Violation The slave camp in Busan killed over 650 in its twelve years of operation during South Korea's dictatorship era.
Featured History 8 September 2022 "New Right" History Ascendant Again Under Conservative Presidency The right-wing revisionist history is stridently anti-communist and pro-Japanese Imperialism.
Featured Japan 28 July 2022 Abe Shinzo's Poisonous Legacy For Japan's reactionary leader, Korea was the perfect enemy that betrayed his true intentions.
Featured Key Players 27 May 2022 Kim Ji-ha, 89, Poet for Democracy with a Complicated Legacy The writer of the defining poem for South Korea's democracy struggles made a stunning about-face later in his life.
Featured History 16 May 2022 Thirty Year Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots Korean Americans have suffered a brunt of the damage as the police pulled their forces to defend the white suburbs.
Featured History 20 April 2022 Hong Seong-u, 84, Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney Hong, who resigned from the bench to protest the Park Chung-hee dictatorship, was involved in nearly every major legal case in South Korea's democracy activism.
Featured History 4 April 2022 Admiral J. Robert Lunney, 94, Hero of the Heungnam Evacuation Heungnam Evacuation was the largest evacuation operation with a single ship.
Featured History 23 March 2022 Obituary: Moon Hye-rim, 86, Women’s Rights Activist Moon was an advocate for sex workers near the US army bases in South Korea.
Featured History 21 January 2022 Thirty Years of Protesting for Comfort Women The Wednesday Protest is the world's longest running protest on a single issue.
Featured History 15 January 2022 Remembering Kim Geun-tae, Ten Years Later The democracy activist was known for his courageous testimony of the gruesome torture he received at the hands of the Chun Doo-hwan dictatorship.
Featured History 16 December 2021 Chun Doo-hwan's Dark Legacy The deceased military dictator's evil deeds go well past the massacre in Gwangju.
Featured Society 13 December 2021 Twentieth Anniversary of the National Human Rights Commission Despite the waxing and waning of its authority, the NHRC has been a key force in protecting human rights.
