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
On 26 October 1979, Park Chung Hee, the third president of South Korea, was assassinated during a dinner at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency safe house near the Blue House presidential compound
Park with future President Kim Young-sam in 1975
The Blue House in 2007
Walther PPK