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Chun Doo-hwan (Korean: 전두환; Korean pronunciation: [tɕʌnduɦwɐn] or ; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean politician, army general and military dictator [2] [3] [4] [5] who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.
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Aug 29, 2024 · Chun Doo-Hwan (born January 18, 1931, Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang, Korea [now in South Korea]—died November 23, 2021, Seoul, South Korea) Korean soldier and politician who was president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. Born into a peasant family, Chun entered the Korean Military Academy in 1951.
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Top left: Rhee Syng-man became the first president of the Republic of Korea in 1948. Top right: Park Chung-hee was the longest-serving president, taking power during the 1961 coup d'etat, sometimes named the Tiger of Yushin Constitution in the 1970s. Bottom left: Kim Dae-jung was elected during the 1997 presidential election. This was the first ...
No.Name (birth–death)Term Of Office(took Office)Term Of Office(left Office)13Yoon Suk Yeol 윤석열 尹錫悅 (born ...10 May 2022Incumbent12Moon Jae-in 문재인 文在寅 (born ...10 May 20179 May 2022—Hwang Kyo-ahn 황교안 黃敎安 (born 1957) ...9 December 20169 May 201711Park Geun-hye 박근혜 朴槿惠 (born ...25 February 201310 March 2017 [n 4]Park Chung Hee (Korean: 박정희; November 14, 1917 – October 26, 1979) was a South Korean politician and army officer who served as the 3rd President of South Korea from 1962 to 1979 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961.
Nov 23, 2021 · But he was pardoned in 1997 in a gesture of reconciliation, shortly after Kim Dae-jung, a former dissident whom Mr. Chun’s military junta had once condemned to death, was elected president.
May 17, 2018 · Chun Doo Hwan (born 1931), an army general turned politician, was elected to a seven-year term in 1981 as president of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Chun Doo Hwan was born on January 18, 1931, in a remote mountainous farm village in Hapch'ongun, South Kyongsang Province.
Nov 24, 2021 · Leader in 1980s seized power in coup and ruled country with iron fist. Former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan enters the Seoul Court House dressed in prison garb for his first trial on ...
