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
Roh Tae-woo
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Roh Tae-woo was a South Korean army general and politician who served as the sixth president of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. In 1987, he became the first president to be directly elected under the c
Chun Doo-hwan
…movement of 1987, Chun conceded to allowing the December 1987 presidential election to be free and open. It was won by his close friend and ally Roh Tae-woo, who continued many of Chun's policies during his own rule into the 1990s. In 1996, Chun was convicted by the Seoul High Court on multiple charges…
Official portrait, c. 1988
Roh Tae-woo and President of United States George H. W. Bush in 1991
Roh and Prime minister of Japan Kiichi Miyazawa in 1992