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    Chun Doo-hwan (Korean: 전두환; Korean pronunciation: [tɕʌnduɦwɐn] or [tɕʌn] [tuɦwɐn]; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean politician,...
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  • Korea by General Chun Doo-hwan and Hanahoe that followed the Coup d'état of December Twelfth. On May 17, 1980, General Chun Doo-hwan forced the Cabinet...
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    March 1939) is the widow of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan. She was the first lady when Chun Doo-hwan was in office, from 1980 to 1988. Lee Soon-ja was...
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  • Hanahoe (category Chun Doo-hwan)
    group and secret society of military officers in South Korea headed by Chun Doo-hwan, who later became the South Korean president during the Fifth Republic...
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    presidential elections controlled by the government of Chun Doo-hwan under the new 1980 constitution. Chun was re-elected with 90% of the electoral college...
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    elected president of South Korea. Roh was a close ally and friend of Chun Doo-hwan, the predecessor leader of the country who ruled as an unelected military...
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  • December 12, 1979, in South Korea. Republic of Korea Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan, commander of the Defence Security Command, acting without authorization...
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    election, Chun lifted the ban on fourteen opposition politicians, but not for Kim Dae-jung. During the June Struggle of 1987 against Chun Doo-hwan, Chun succumbed...
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    becoming the country's fourth president. In December 1979, Major General Chun Doo-hwan and close allies within the military staged a coup d'état against Choi's...
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  • man in his 60s to death, because he praised controversial president Chun Doo-hwan. Because he was deemed feeble-minded, he was sentenced to 2 years and...
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    military regime of President Chun Doo-hwan announced its choice of Roh Tae-woo as the next president. The public designation of Chun's successor was seen as...
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  • an unexpected direction. Hwang Jung-min as Major General Chun Doo-gwang: based on Chun Doo-hwan, who later became the 5th President of South Korea Jung...
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    law declared after Park's death. Choi was unofficially overthrown by Chun Doo-hwan in the coup d'état of December Twelfth in December 1979, and began the...
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    February 1988. The Fifth Republic was established in February 1981 by Chun Doo-hwan, a military colleague of long-time president and dictator Park Chung...
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  • accurate depiction of the political or socio-economic climate. After Chun Doo-hwan assumed power in another military coup, he too declared martial law...
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    Security Command, he decided to contact Security Command Commander Chun Doo-hwan, thinking that even if the President was dead, the body would have to...
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  • Brothers' Home and other similar concentration camps opened by the Chun Doo-hwan regime during the fourth and fifth republics "welfare centers". A DW...
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    from president to give way to the new military leader, Chun Doo-hwan. In September of that year, Chun was elected president by indirect election and inaugurated...
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  • 1981–1988 Fifth Republic of South Korea under the dictatorship of President Chun Doo-hwan. It follows his rise to power through a military coup to his downfall...
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    also opposed the formation of Hanahoe, a secret organization formed by Chun Doo-hwan and other young officers who took personal oaths of loyalty to Park...
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    1979, the authoritarian rule continued in the Fifth Republic led by Chun Doo-hwan, which violently seized power by two coups and brutally suppressed the...
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    MR: Minjuchŏngŭidang; DJP) was the ruling party of South Korea from 1981 to 1988. Chun Doo-hwan had become the country's de facto leader after leading a military coup...
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    term of office in December 1978. General Chun Doo-hwan was the only candidate, and was elected unopposed. Chun was to serve for the remainder of the 1978–1984...
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  • shortly after its formation on February 2, 1963 to its dissolution under Chun Doo-hwan in 1980. Under the control of Park Chung Hee, President of South Korea...
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  • attempt against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in Rangoon, Burma. The attempt was orchestrated by North Korea. Although Chun survived, 21...
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    powerful rivals to the authoritarian regimes of Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo-hwan. He was elected to the National Assembly at the age of 25, the youngest...
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  • "US officials 'aided Gaddafi'". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-04-24. "Chun Doo-hwan's bloody Gwangju legacy is America's problem too | Responsible Statecraft"...
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  • Samchung re-education camp (category Chun Doo-hwan)
    camp set up during the early 1980s under the rule of military dictator Chun Doo-hwan. More than 60,000 people—with estimates up to almost 100,000 people...
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  • December Twelfth. As a result, key members of the Hanahoe, such as Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, arrested Jeong on suspicion of involvement in the assassination...
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    was forcibly merged with the state-run KBS by the military regime of Chun Doo-hwan. At its founding in 2011 some media analysts considered the return of...
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