Chun Doo-hwan (Korean: 전두환; [tɕʌn du.ɦwɐn]; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean politician, army general and military dictator [2][3][4][5] who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.

Chun Doo-Hwan was a Korean soldier and politician who helped lead the 1979 coup that overthrew the government and who later served as president of South Korea (1980–88). In the 1990s he was convicted of various crimes and sentenced to death.

Nov 23, 2021 · Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, whose iron-fisted rule of the country following a 1979 military coup sparked massive democracy protests, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, his...

Nov 23, 2021 · SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who seized power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for misdeeds while in office, died Tuesday. He was 90.

Chun Doo-hwan (6 March 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a Korean military officer and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. He was sentenced to death in 1996. Chun was later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam on the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung, who was sentenced to death by Chun some 20 years earlier.

Nov 23, 2021 · 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...

Nov 23, 2021 · SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who seized power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for...

Nov 23, 2021 · SEOUL, South Korea — 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 in office,...

Nov 23, 2021 · SEOUL — Chun Doo-hwan, a one-time authoritarian ruler of South Korea who came to power in a military coup and oversaw a brutal crackdown on democratic protesters during his reign in the 1980s,...

Nov 23, 2021 · SEOUL – Chun Doo-hwan, an ex-general who ruled as president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988, died early on Tuesday morning from natural causes, aged 90. Chun achieved a core national mission by securing the 1988 Summer Olympics for Seoul.