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21 hours ago · Even the movie’s end scene, where Chun’s victorious coup confederates take a group photo, is adapted from an actual photo that Chun Doo-hwan and his conspirators took in the aftermath of December 12, 1979. It’s not often that a movie that’s both so historically accurate and entertaining comes around, which makes 12.12 especially laudable.
22 hours ago · Born December 1993, Nam Arum’s birthday shared with a twin sister — younger by a few minutes — landed on the day that South Korean democracy truly began, she says: the trial of Chun Doo-hwan ...
2 days ago · A Seoul court has ordered the government to compensate 19 victims of the notorious Samcheong Reeducation Camp run under the military dictatorship of the former Chun Doo-hwan administration in the early 1980s. The Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday recognized state unlawfulness regarding the Samcheong program and ruled the government ...
4 days ago · After a six-month stint at Seoul’s infamous Seodaemun Prison, Kang went on to spend most of the Park and Chun Doo-hwan years as a diplomat and academic. In the late 1980s, his fortunes finally changed: Roh Tae-woo, another military strongman who pledged to transition to democracy, chose Kang as Prime Minister in 1988 on the basis of his anti ...
3 days ago · Former South Korean president (1980-1988) Chun Doo-Hwan was a controversial figure, known for his military coup and subsequent authoritarian government. (more) In August 1980 Chun Doo-Hwan was elected president by the NCU.
5 days ago · Less than two years earlier, General Chun Doo-hwan had seized power in a coup d’état, and soon presided over a massacre of student demonstrators in Gwangju and the imprisonment of the opposition activist Kim Dae-jung.
5 days ago · A significant shift occurred in 1983 when Lee Bum Suk, the Foreign Minister under President Chun Doo-hwan, introduced “Nordpolitik.” This policy aimed to foster closer ties with communist countries, particularly the Soviet Union and China, and was implemented during Roh Tae-woo's presidency in 1988.
