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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, ...
Chun orchestrated the 12 December 1979 military coup, then cemented his military dictatorship in the 17 May 1980 military coup in which he declared martial law and later set up a concentration camp for "purificatory education". He established the Fifth Republic of Korea on 3 March 1981.
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.
Category: Military coups in South Korea. ... May 16 coup; Y. Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion This page was last edited on 9 September 2023, at 16:52 ...
Bombing of airport by North Korea: Gimpo International Airport bombing: 1987: 17 June: near Koje Island: 25 – 38: Fire: Fire from an overheated engine and sinking: Kukdong-ho Fire [5] 1987: 29 November: Over the Andaman Sea: 115: Terrorism: Airliner destroyed by bomb planted aboard: Korean Air Flight 858: 1988: 25 March: Anyang, Kyonggi: 22: Fire
Later on 4 December, all of the major newspapers in South Korea and the National Union of Media Workers unanimously condemned Yoon and called for his arrest, saying the martial law was illegal and an attempted repeat of the brutal coups of the 1980s. [98] At the same time, multiple South Korean celebrities also heavily condemned Yoon. [99]