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Chun Doo-hwan died of a chronic disease at his home in Yeonhui-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul around 8:45 am today.
According to the police, Jeon suffered sudden cardiac arrest when the nurse went to collect blood, and he performed CPR, but eventually died.
At the age of 90, he became president after a military coup on December 12, 1979.
In 1980, he was sentenced to death after resigning for violently suppressing the Gwangju Democratization Movement.
After the then-President Choi Kyu-ha resigned in August of that year, he became the 11th president through the National Assembly for Unification Subjects.
During his seven-year tenure, he enjoyed a period of high economic growth, but at the end of his tenure, after the torture and death of Park Jong-cheol in 1987, the so-called June Uprising began.
The late Roh Tae-woo, the ruling party’s presidential candidate, accepted the direct presidential system through the June 29 Declaration.
After his tenure in 1988, he was arrested and indicted by the Kim Young-sam government in 1995. He was sentenced to death in the first trial and life imprisonment in the second trial for leading a rebellion, murder, and bribery.
In December 1997, he was released with a special amnesty by the Kim Young-sam government, and was reinstated the following year.
He did not apologize for his mistakes, including the military coup and the May 18 bloody suppression, until the last minute.
On November 23, 1988, 33 years ago, the former president apologized for mistakes, errors and corruption during his tenure at his home in Yeonhui-dong, and headed to Baekdamsa Temple with his wife, Soon-Ja Lee.
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