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Bookmark or Share- Chun Doo-hwan - WikipediaChun 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.
- Chun Doo-Hwan | Biography & Facts | BritannicaChun 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.
- Former South Korean military dictator Chun Doo-hwan dies at 90Former 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.
- Ex-South Korean strongman Chun Doo-hwan dies at age 90SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — 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 Tuesday.
- South Korea’s ex-president Chun Doo-hwan, who presided over Gwangju ...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, the Yonhap...
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