Kim Dae-jung
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Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician, activist, and statesman who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
Official portrait, 1998
Kim Dae-jung in 1943
Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam in 1960
Campaign poster featuring Kim in the 1971 presidential election
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
Kim Dae-jung
…demanding that Park resign and that the Yushin Constitution he promulgated be abolished. In January 1980, the succeeding military dictatorship under Chun Doo-hwan lifted Kim's house arrest, only to arrest him during Chun's second coup on 17 May 1980. On 11 September 1980, the government sentenced Kim to death…
Official portrait, 1980
Chun as captain, 1959
Memorial Hall in the May 18th National Cemetery in Gwangju where victims' bodies were buried