SEOUL--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 while in office ...

Anchor] While the execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol has been canceled, attention is also being paid ...

An anecdote about President Yoon Suk Yeol's sentence of Chun Doo-hwan to "life imprisonment" in a mock trial when he was a law student at Seoul National University is being re-examined.

Chun's rule, from 1979 to 1988, was marked both by severe political repression as well as rapid social and economic changes. He is most famous for ordering the Gwangju massacre, for which he ...

SEOUL--The death this week of South Korea’s last military dictator, Chun Doo-hwan, marks the end of a divisive chapter in the country’s modern history but leaves survivors of his regime’s ...

Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer". The city of Gwangju was the centre of an uprising against martial law, imposed by Chun after he led a coup.

The film depicts the military coup led by the former president late Chun Doo-hwan on Dec. 12, 1979, when Chun, as the then-head of the Defense Security Command, provoked a military rebellion by ...

Chun Doo-hwan, an army major general, overthrew the government in a coup on Dec 12, 1979 before declaring martial law and ruling the country with an iron first for eight years. For some ...

"The stone table still bears a message that says, 'this park is named Ilha after Chun's ho, to commemorate that this is a proud birthplace of 12th South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan.’ ...

After Park’s assassination, Army Chief of Staff Jeong Seung-hwa worried about the political ambitions of General Chun Doo-hwan, leader of Korea’s Defense Security Command and a member of ...

World News // 3 years ago Chun Doo-hwan, ex-South Korean dictator, dies at 90 Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, a general who seized power in a 1979 military coup and brutally ...