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 ...

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, South Korea’s most vilified former military dictator, who seized power in a coup and ruled his country with an iron fist for most of the 1980s, dispatching paratroopers and ...

The prosecution on Tuesday searched the house of former President Chun Doo-hwan in Yeounhui-dong western Seoul along with 10 ...

Kim Sang-wook, a lawmaker of the ruling People Power Party, burns incense to pay tribute to slain pro-democracy fighters at a national cemetery in the southwestern city of Gwangju on Feb. 24, 2025.

“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 ...

Ex-governor honors late pro-democracy fighters Former South Gyeongsang Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo, affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Party and known to be outside of the faction led by the party ...

Recently, a Chinese TikToker's video imitating former President Chun Doo-hwan in Gwangju has become the center of controversy, prompting Professor Seo Kyung-deok of Sungshin Women's University to ...

Seoul Arts Center has ultimately removed the calligraphy stone of former President Chun Doo-hwan, which had only been obscured by a covering. According to the Arts Center and the office of ...

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 ...