Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer". The city of Gwangju was the centre of an uprising against martial law, imposed by Chun after he led a coup.

Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, a general who seized power in a 1979 military coup and brutally suppressed a pro-democracy uprising in the city of Gwangju a year later, died Tuesday ...

Chun Doo-hwan. In response, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of protesters were gunned down by the military. One of Han’s ...

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The event included marching units of South Korean troops, the U.N. honor guard and the Eighth U.S. Army, which is stationed .

After Park’s assassination, Army Chief of Staff Jeong Seung-hwa worried about the political ambitions of General Chun Doo-hwan, leader of Korea’s Defense Security Command and a member of ...

Korean youth are drafted into or forced to "volunteer" for the Japanese army. 1945-1947 ... protests following the assassination, Gen. Chun Doo Hwan stages a coup. 1981-1986: The collaboration ...

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The film is based on the real-life coup by South Korean general Chun Doo-hwan. The film, which stars Hwang Jung-min as Chun, Jung Woo Sung and Lee Sung-min, was nominated for Best Film ...

SEOUL — You’d be hard pressed to find anyone here who had anticipated that Han Kang would be awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, the world’s highest literary honor. Although the ...

Chun's rule, from 1979 to 1988, was marked both by severe political repression as well as rapid social and economic changes. He is most famous for ordering the Gwangju massacre, for which he ...