dies at 90 Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, a general who seized power in a 1979 military coup and brutally suppressed a pro-democracy uprising in the city of Gwangju a year later ...

SEOUL--Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who took power in a 1979 ... Chun was an army major general when he seized power in December 1979 with his military cronies.

Chun Doo-hwan, South Korea’s most vilified former ... Chun was the last to die among South Korea’s three military general-turned presidents. As an army captain, he took part in Maj Gen Park ...

The prosecution on Tuesday searched the house of former President Chun Doo-hwan in Yeounhui-dong western Seoul along with 10 ...

South Korean general Chun Doo-hwan's infamous power grab after the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung-hee plunged the nation into 8 years of chaos Hwang Jung-min plays the tyrant and Jung ...

Chun's rule, from 1979 to 1988, was marked both by severe political repression as well as rapid social and economic changes. He is most famous for ordering the Gwangju massacre, for which he ...