“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 ...

World News // 3 years ago Chun Doo-hwan, ex-South Korean dictator, dies at 90 Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, a general who seized power in a 1979 military coup and brutally ...

Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer". The city of Gwangju was the centre of an uprising against martial law, imposed by Chun after he led a coup.