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The Coup d'état of May Seventeenth (Korean: 5.17 내란; Hanja: 五一七內亂) was a military coup d'état staged by General Chun Doo-hwan on 17 May 1980 against the civilian government of President Choi Kyu-hah in South Korea. [1] On May 17, 1980, Chun forced the Cabinet to extend martial law to the whole nation, which had previously not ...
The Gwangju Uprising, also known in South Korea as May 18 Democratization Movement (Korean: 오일팔 민주화운동; Hanja: 五一八民主化運動; RR: Oilpal minjuhwa-undong; lit. Five One Eight Democratization Movement), [ b ] was a series of student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju , South Korea , in May 1980, against the ...
December 12 coup: 1979: May 17 coup: 1980: Gwangju Uprising: 1980: Fifth Republic 1981–88. ... This is a list of wars involving South Korea since 1948, ...
North Korea is a dictatorship, and South Korea is a democracy. That's one of the most basic pieces of conventional wisdom about modern geopolitics. But it wasn't always so.
May 8, 1984: An attempted coup launched by the National Front for the Salvation of Libya failed to overthrow Gaddafi regime. [126] October 22, 1993: A failed coup against Muammar Gaddafi was led by Warfalla officers. April 17, 2013: A first coup attempt against Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan was led by Gaddafi loyalists. [128]
October Restoration – 1972 self-coup by South Korean President Park Chung-hee; Coup d'état of December Twelfth – 1979 coup d'état in South Korea that brought Chun Doo-hwan to power; 2019 South Korean National Assembly attack – an incident where supporters of the Liberty Korea Party, a predecessor of the People Power Party, illegally ...
The May 16 military coup d'état (Korean: 5·16 군사정변) was a military coup d'état in South Korea in 1961, organized and carried out by Park Chung Hee and his allies who formed the Military Revolutionary Committee, nominally led by Army Chief of Staff Chang Do-yong after the latter's acquiescence on the day of the coup.
South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operation as investigators worked to identify victims and find out ...