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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 who ruled as an unelected strongman from 1979 to 1980 before replacing Choi Kyu-hah as president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.
Nov 23, 2021 · Chun Doo-hwan, South Korea’s most vilified former military dictator, who seized power in a coup and ruled his country with an iron fist for most of the 1980s, dispatching paratroopers...
Nov 23, 2021 · Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, whose iron-fisted rule of the country following a 1979 military coup sparked massive democracy protests, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, his former...
Jun 25, 2024 · Chun Doo-Hwan was a Korean soldier and politician who helped lead the 1979 coup that overthrew the government and who later served as president of South Korea (1980–88). In the 1990s he was convicted of various crimes and sentenced to death.
Nov 23, 2021 · Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who crushed pro-democracy demonstrations in 1980, has died at age 90.
Nov 23, 2021 · Chun Doo-hwan, a one-time authoritarian ruler of South Korea who came to power in a military coup and oversaw a brutal crackdown on democratic protesters during his reign in the 1980s, died ...
Nov 23, 2021 · Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who took power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for misdeeds in office, died on Tuesday.
Nov 24, 2021 · T HE ERA of strongman rule in South Korea receded a little further on November 23rd when Chun Doo-hwan, the country’s last military dictator, died at home in Seoul at the age of 90.
Nov 24, 2021 · Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who seized power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for misdeeds while in office, died...
Nov 23, 2021 · Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, whose iron-fisted rule of the country following a 1979 military coup triggered massive democracy protests, has died at the age of 90, his former...
