Chun Doo-hwan's Authoritarian Era

Chun Doo-hwan

Born in Hapcheon-gun, Chun Doo-hwan seized power through the December 12, 1979 military coup and brutally suppressed the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. His presidency maintained strict authoritarian control over democracy movements while hosting economic expansion and preparing for the 1988 Olympics.

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Year	Chun Doo-hwan
1931	Birth of Chun Doo-hwan (Period: January 18, 1931, Location: Yulgok-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea)
1947	Entrance to Daegu Technical High School and Admission to the Korea Military Academy (Chun Doo-hwan, Age: 15 years old, Period: 1947–1951, Location: Daegu, Korea)
1948	Purge of the Military Following the Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion (Age: 17 years old, Period: October 1948 onward, Location: Yeosu, Suncheon, etc., Jeollanam-do, Korea)
1950	Korean War (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1950–1953, Location: Korean Peninsula)
1955	Graduation from the Korea Military Academy and Start of Military Career (Chun Doo-hwan, Age: 23 years old, Period: 1955, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1958	Marriage (Chun Doo-hwan and Lee Soon-ja, Age: 27 years old, Period: January 24, 1958, Location: Auditorium of the 1st Army Training Center in Daegu, Korea)
1961	Support for the May 16 Military Coup (Age: 30 years old, Period: May 1961, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1963	Service at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1963, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1970	Vietnam War (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1970–1971, Location: Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)) Deployment to Vietnam and Assumption of Command of the 29th Regiment (Chun Doo-hwan, Age: 38 years old, Period: 1970–1971, Location: South Vietnam)
1979	Assumption of Office as Commander of the Defense Security Command (Chun Doo-hwan, Age: 48 years old, Period: March 1979, Location: Seoul, Korea) Seizure of Military Control (Age: 48 years old, Period: December 1979 – 1980, Location: Seoul, Korea) December 12 Military Coup (Age: 48 years old, Period: December 12, 1979, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1980	Establishment of the Special Committee for National Defense Measures (Age: 49 years old, Period: May–October 1980, Location: Seoul, Korea) May 17 Measure to Extend Martial Law (Age: 49 years old, Period: May 17, 1980, Location: All of Korea) Gwangju Uprising (May 18 Democratic Uprising, Age: 49 years old, Period: May 18–27, 1980, Location: Gwangju, Jeollanam-do, Korea (Present-day Gwangju Metropolitan City))
1981	Inauguration of the Fifth Republic (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1981–1988, Location: All of Korea) Preparations for the Seoul Olympic Games (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1981–1988, Location: Seoul, Korea) Inauguration as President of the Republic of Korea (Chun Doo-hwan, Age: 50 years old, Period: September 1, 1980 (11th term), March 3, 1981 (12th term), Location: Seoul, Korea)
1983	Rangoon Bombing (Age: 52 years old, Period: October 9, 1983, Location: Rangoon, Burma (Present-day Yangon, Myanmar))
1987	June Democratic Struggle (Age: 56 years old, Period: June–July 1987, Location: All of Korea (Seoul, Busan, Daegu, etc.))
1988	Presidential Retirement and Seclusion at Baekdamsa Temple (Age: 57 years old, Period: February 1988 – 1990, Location: Inje-gun, Gangwon-do, and Baekdamsa Temple, Korea)
1995	Trial of Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo for Treason and Corruption (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1995–1997, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1997	Special Amnesty and Release (Age: 66 years old, Period: December 1997, Location: Seoul, Korea)
2017	Defamation Trial (Age: 85 years old, Period: 2017–2020, Location: Gwangju Metropolitan City, Korea)
2021	Death of Chun Doo-hwan (Age: 90 years old, Period: November 23, 2021 (aged 90)) Death (Chun Doo-hwan, Age: 90 years old, Period: November 23, 2021, Location: Home in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea)

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Group	List
Founding of the PRC	Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Liu Shaoqi Zhu De Chen Yun Jiang Qing Hua Guofeng Ye Jianying Wang Hongwen Zhang Chunqiao
Nation-building in Taiwan	Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Ching-kuo Chen Cheng Yen Chia-kan Lee Teng-hui Sun Li-jen Koo Chen-fu James Soong (Soong Chu-yu) Kang Ning-hsiang Shih Ming-teh
State-building in South Korea	Syngman Rhee Park Chung-hee Chun Doo-hwan Roh Tae-woo Kim Young-sam Kim Dae-jung Chang Myon Kim Jong-pil Lee Byung-chul Chung Ju-yung Kim Jae-gyu
Post-war Reconstruction of Japan	Shigeru Yoshida Ichiro Hatoyama Nobusuke Kishi Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Sato Kakuei Tanaka Takeo Fukuda Masayoshi Ohira Yasuhiro Nakasone Takeo Miki

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