The legal action filed by the prosecution to recover the unpaid confiscation fees of former President Chun Doo-hwan regarding the transfer of ownership of his residence in Yeonhui-dong ...

The Blue House said it would not provide flowers or any other form of public condolences for the funeral of ex-president Chun Doo-hwan, who passed away on the morning of... South Korea’s 2022 ...

Former Presidents Roh Tae-woo, Chun Doo-hwan, Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak were convicted and imprisoned, all having been arrested and investigated after leaving office. Roh was the first ...

Court rules Chun Doo-hwan's death nullifies asset recovery order The legal action filed by the prosecution to recover the unpaid confiscation fees of former President Chun Doo-hwan regarding the ...

Kim backed popular movements for the return of democracy in South Korea and reportedly reprimanded President Chun Doo-hwan, who seized power in a military coup in 1979, by comparing his illegal power ...

However, South Korean society does not tend to respect the dead to such extremes for a lack of “posthumous trials” — such as the case of former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan — but rather ...

He is the first South Korean to face insurrection charges since the former military dictator Chun Doo-hwan, who was convicted in the 1990s. As president, Mr. Yoon loved to throw parties ...

On the opposite end is “Human Acts” (2014), a fictionalization of the 1980 Gwangju massacre, in which South Korea’s military dictator, Chun Doo-hwan, set the army upon protesters ...

SEOUL – As president of South Korea, Mr Yoon Suk Yeol lived in a luxurious hilltop mansion, threw parties and had a small army of personal guards. These days, he is alone in a 9.9 sq m cell ...

Chun, who took power in a 1979 coup and violently crushed pro-democracy protests a year later before being jailed for treason in the 1990s, died at his Seoul home Tuesday at the age of 90.

They snooze in parking garages, on side streets before the afternoon school run, in nap pods rented by the hour, or stretched out in bed while working from home. But are people who nap during the ...

Lee stayed there after being charged with corruption. 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.