Chun Doo-hwan (born January 18, 1931) was a former ROK Army general and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for the Gwangju massacre, but later ...

Chun was an army major general when he seized power in December 1979 with his military cronies, including Roh Tae-woo, who later succeeded Chun as president after winning the country’s first ...

Chun Doo-hwan at a press conference in Seoul in 1978 (Yonhap/AP) His coup came just two months after the assassination of his mentor and army leader, General Park Chung-hee, who had held power ...

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On May 18, 1980, the military cracked down on demonstrators, including students, protesting against then President Chun Doo-hwan, who had taken power in a military coup a year earlier. The harsh ...

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 ...

Insurance charges were certainly harsh for both employees and employers. The following Chun Doo Hwan government was reportedly negative about the idea at first. The KDI pitched “creating a welfare ...

Rather than simply recounting well-known facts, the film presents a more nuanced perspective by exploring the internal ...

Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan has passed away on Tuesday in Seoul after protracted illness. He was 90. In a statement, his former press secretary Min Chung-ki told press that 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 ...