By the late 1960s, Kim started to take aim at a faction within the North Korean military dubbed the “partisan generals” whom he’d brought to power and put in charge of his covert war.

Installation view of ‘Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s-1970s’ at the Guggenheim, with Jung Kangja’s ‘Kiss Me’ (1967/2001) in the foreground Photo: Solomon R. Guggenheim ...

Film at Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema announce “Korean Cinema’s Golden Decade: The 1960s,” a sweeping retrospective that features 24 films from this remarkable period in Korean film history.

Upheaval wrestles with tradition in Korean art of the 1960s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum Lee Kun-Yong, “Corporal Term,” 1971/2023, mixed media.

Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world. Alex Paik April 8, 2024 ...

South Korea said Wednesday that a North Korean missile fired toward the South last week was an SA-5 surface-to-air missile weapon that dates back to the 1960s. Nov. 9, 2022 ...

Whether half a century ago or today, the spirit of youth lives on in the Hammer Museum’s latest exhibit. “Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s” has made its way from ...

South Korea, February 1960: Spc. 5 Edward Coggs and Staff Sgt. Walter Hettinger, both of the 54th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance) unload a patient from a H-13 Sioux helicopter for ...

But analysts also detected a hint of regret behind the covert push. South Korea was a political tinderbox in the early 1960s when a military coup that brought Kim’s nemesis Park to power. The ...