Chun Doo-hwan
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About
South Korean army general and politician who served as the fifth President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. He came to power through a military coup following the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung Hee.
Before fame
He graduated from the Korea Military Academy in 1955 and fought in the Korean War as part of the Student Volunteer Forces. He went on to serve in the Vietnam War and later became commander of the Defense Security Command in 1979.
Trivia
He survived a 1983 bombing attack by North Korean agents in Rangoon, Burma, that killed seventeen members of his delegation
Family life
He married Lee Soon-ja in 1958, and the couple had four children. He died at his home in Seoul in November 2021, at the age of 90.
Associated with
Roh Tae-Woo is the politician who succeeded him as President of South Korea in 1988.
