SEOUL--Former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo, who participated in a military coup then won the election that was the country’s first move toward democracy before he was imprisoned for ...

Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, then army generals, took advantage of the political confusion to stage a coup in December 1979. - 1961: Yun overthrown in a coup - President Yun Po-sun was ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested early Sunday, making him the first sitting president in Korea’s history to be arrested. He is the fifth Korean president to face arrest, following predecessors who ...

[Reporter] Former Presidents Chun Doo-hwan, Roh Tae-woo, Lee Myung Bak, and Park Geun Hye have all been investigated and tried since leaving office. The most recent case is former President Lee ...

Roh Tae-woo, South Korea’s first democratic president, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in the 1979 coup that brought military dictator Chun Doo-hwan to power and led to a ...

Former President Roh Tae-woo disclosed that the announcement of the joint declaration of denuclearization was a pre-emptive move intended to put the provocative North under control. In his memoir ...

The president arrived at the facility with his ... Former presidents Park Geun-hye, Roh Tae-woo and Chun Doo-hwan have all rested their heads there at some point during the past three decades.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing possible ... to accept direct presidential elections. His army buddy Roh Tae-woo, who had joined Chun’s 1979 coup, won the election held later ...

And the embattled president has reportedly changed out of ... Young-sam or Kim Dae-jung was going to win the election, not Roh Tae-woo,” said Mike Breen, a reporter at the time and a Seoul ...