11-23-2021, 04:26 PM
Chun Doo-hwan (Korean: 전두환; Hanja: 全斗煥; Korean pronunciation: [tɕʌnduɦwɐn] or [tɕʌn] [tuɦwɐn]; 6 March 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.
From December 1979 to September 1980, he was the country's de facto leader, ruling as an unelected military strongman with civilian president Choi Kyu-hah largely as a figurehead. Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for his role in the Gwangju Massacre but was later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam, with the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung, whom Chun's administration had sentenced to death some 20 years earlier. Chun Doo-hwan died on 23 November 2021 at age 90 due to a relapse of myeloma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun_Doo-hwan
Not a nice guy, but at least he knew which way the wind was blowing.
From December 1979 to September 1980, he was the country's de facto leader, ruling as an unelected military strongman with civilian president Choi Kyu-hah largely as a figurehead. Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for his role in the Gwangju Massacre but was later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam, with the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung, whom Chun's administration had sentenced to death some 20 years earlier. Chun Doo-hwan died on 23 November 2021 at age 90 due to a relapse of myeloma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun_Doo-hwan
Not a nice guy, but at least he knew which way the wind was blowing.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.