Description
Chun Doo-hwan is a ROK Army general who served as the leader of South Korea from 1979 to 1988, ruling as an unelected military strongman from December 1979 to September 1980, and the fifth President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for his role in the Gwangju Massacre, but later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam with the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung, whom Chun's administration had sentenced to death some 20 years earlier.
Born
January 18th, 1931 in Hapcheon County / Died: Nov 23rd, 2021
Last Changes
2021/11/24
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2021/01/21
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2006/08/17
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