Revered in South Korea for his efforts to defend the country against Japanese encroachment, Ahn Jung-geun is best known for ...

Ahn Jung-geun is best known for his dramatic assassination of Japan's first prime minister in 1909 at a railway station.

It was in October 1897 that King Gojong declared himself Emperor, seizing his chance when the once-dominant China lost to Japan in the ... to shore up a bid for Korean independence and sovereignty ...

The artists, musicians and writers pushing past decades of historical erasure. By Hannah Beech THE STORY GOES that the Japanese imperial family, which claims the world’s longest unbroken royal ...

Calligraphy by a South Korean independence hero, created while awaiting execution for assassinating a Japanese statesman, is ...