Chun Doo-hwan (born January 18 ... older brother Ki-hwan and younger brother Kyeong-hwan. Around 1936, Chun's family moved to Daegu, where he began attending Horan Elementary School.

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 ...

"Chun Doo-hwan died without ever apologising" Prof Shin Yul from Myongji University in Seoul told AFP. "Someone in his family should have done it in a proper manner a long time ago," he added.

South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, center, is escorted by Major General ... Park Kyung-mee expressed condolences to Chun’s family, but added it was regrettable that the former leader had ...

An auction sold out a part of an art collection previously owned by the former president Chun Doo-hwan's family, profiting a ...

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 ...

“Chun Doo-hwan was not the type of person to apologize,” Kim said. “Yet if he had apologized, I think there would have been a possibility that Gwangju citizens who have been heartbroken for ...

Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan has passed away on Tuesday in Seoul after protracted illness. He was 90. In a statement, his former press secretary Min Chung-ki told press that the ...

1981 -- President Chun Doo-hwan proposes a summit with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Il-sung. On July 1 of that year, Kim rejected Chun's proposal. 2005 -- South Korean pitcher Park Chan-ho ...

The Chun Doo-hwan regime seized power in a coup d'etat, massacred peaceful protesters. People from all walks of life have been fighting the military dictatorship in their own way. And the story of ...

South Korean general Chun Doo-hwan's infamous power grab after the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung-hee plunged the nation into 8 years of chaos Hwang Jung-min plays the tyrant and Jung ...

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 ...