“My countrymen, as of eighth of April, I am placing the entire South Korea under martial law...”

    The President of South Korea declared martial law in 1978 to stop the continuing growth of crimes happening around the country. Or at least, that’s what they told the people…
    Yoon Haru grew up hearing stories about how her late grandfather fought against the government during martial law in 1978. Yoon Junghoon, her late grandfather, was an activist, journalist, and a hero to them, his family. She never had the chance to meet him. He was gone long before she was born in this world. Growing up, she always hears her relatives telling her how intelligent she is like her late grandfather. They would always show her his medals, trophies, and certificates he got when he was at her age. And as Haru grows up, the medals would go thicker and thicker each year.
    He was a great journalist, they said. He didn’t fight with guns or knives when he fought for his countrymen—he fought with words and papers. During that time, no one was allowed to release any news about the dark side of what’s happening in the country. Only the positive feedback will be reported to the citizens through national television news. Her late grandfather, however, formed an alliance in 1981 with his co-journalists and built a small underground newspaper publishing company. With enough evidences and facts against the government, they exposed to the people all the crimes that is happening all over the country through a simple newspaper in 1983. When the dictator found out about it, one by one, all the people working under her grandfather’s company disappeared. They found the dead bodies in a farm far from the city in 1985, but they never found her grandfather’s body.
    The martial law ended in 1987. And until now, the Yoon family never had the justice for the late Yoon Junghoon, who was killed by the government.
    There’s only one family in the world that the Yoon family detests the most, and one of its members has to be Haru’s seatmate in Journalism.

IMPORTANT NOTE, PLEASE READ!!!

This story ISN'T based on 1980 martial law in South Korea. The events mentioned in the foreword DID NOT happen in real life, as well as the future events that will be mentioned in next chapters. It's all fiction. I have no knowledge about how South Korea handled martial law in 1980, therefore, this will all be loosely based on how did martial law happen in the Philippines in 1972.

In celebration of my 1st anniv here on AFF, here's a new fic!! Lmao idk what I got myself into