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A fictional South Korean general, modeled after Chun Doo-hwan, is portrayed as "Chun Doo-gwang" in the 2023 South Korean film 12.12: The Day. [ 56 ] Chun appears as a fictional character in the South Korean action thriller Hunt as a retaliatory target for a rogue military intelligence officers for his involvement the 1980 student massacre ...
After President Park's assassination, martial law is declared.Security commander Chun Doo-hwan and the officers who follow him stage a coup.Lee Tae-shin, a stubborn commander of the Capital Garrison Command who believes that soldiers should not take political action, fights against Chun Doo-hwan.
The Gwangju Uprising, known in Korean as May 18 (Korean: 오일팔; Hanja: 五一八; RR: Oilpal; lit. Five One Eight), was a series of student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980, against the dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan.
Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, whose iron-fisted rule of the country following a 1979 military coup sparked massive democracy protests, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, the Yonhap ...
Hundreds of people are estimated to have died or gone missing when the South Korean military violently put down an uprising in Gwangju in May 1980, which began in response to General Chun Doo-hwan ...
Hwang Jung-min – 12.12: The Day as Major General Chun Doo-gwang; Tony Leung Chiu-wai – The Goldfinger as Henry Ching; Shen Teng – Full River Red as Zhang Da; Wu Kang-ren – Abang Adik as Chen Ah-bang
Hwang Jung-min – 12.12: The Day as Chun Doo-gwang. Kim Yoon-seok – Noryang: Deadly Sea as Yi Sun-sin; Lee Byung-hun – Concrete Utopia as Yeong-tak;
Major General Chun Doo-hwan quickly amassed sweeping powers after his Defense Security Command was charged with investigating the assassination, first taking control of the military and the KCIA before installing another military junta and finally assuming the presidency in 1980. Tombs of Yuk Young-soo and Park Chung Hee (2015)