Chun Doo-hwan
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Chun Doo-hwan was a South Korean army general and politician who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. A member of the Democratic Justice Party, he ruled the country as a mil
Official portrait, 1980
Chun as captain, 1959
Memorial Hall in the May 18th National Cemetery in Gwangju where victims' bodies were buried
Fifth Republic of Korea
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The Fifth Republic of Korea was the government of South Korea from February 1981 to February 1988.
Chun Doo-hwan
…Party, he ruled the country as a military dictator following a successful coup in December 1979. The period encompassing his presidency is known as the Fifth Republic of Korea. Born in Hapcheon County, Korea, Empire of Japan, Chun graduated from Korea Military Academy in 1955 with a bachelor's degree in science. He usurped…
The Hyundai Pony, South Korea's first mass-produced car, began to be exported during the Fifth Republic.