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, died Tuesday ...

The Day', starring Hwang Jung-min, Jung Woo-sung and Lee Sung-min, has been picked as South Korea's Oscar entry.

12:12 The Day, a film that details one eventful day in South Korea’s political history, has been selected as Korea’s entry ...

The central government must convince local communities with all of its efforts. But the government does not seem so desperate ...

Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan has passed away on Tuesday in Seoul after protracted illness. He was 90. In a statement, his former press secretary Min Chung-ki told press that the ...

It's certainly much more pleasant to have opinions on the glorious figures of the past (King Sejong the Great, Admiral Lee ...

Dozens died. In 1996, a court in South Korea sentenced former President Chun Doo-hwan to death for the coup that put him in ...

“Chun Doo-hwan was not the type of person to apologize,” Kim said. “Yet if he had apologized, I think there would have been a possibility that Gwangju citizens who have been heartbroken for ...

Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who seized power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for misdeeds while in office, has died at ...

1949 -- The National Assembly passes a law to abolish a committee set up in the previous year to investigate Koreans who collaborated with the Japanese in the colonial period. 1965 -- The JoongAng ...

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 ...