Chun Doo-hwan 全斗焕
（重定向自Chun Doo Hwan）
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![President Chun, and his wife Rhee Soon-ja prepare to depart after their visit to Washington D.C. in 1981.](/Images/godic/202501/04/Chun_Doo-hwan_and_Lee_SoonJa2358.jpg")
![President Chun Doo-hwan, attending a 1985 military briefing](/Images/godic/202501/04/Chun_Doo-hwan,_1985-Mar-222358.jpg")
Chun Doo-hwan (Korean pronunciation: [tɕʌnduhwan] born 18 January 1931) is a former South Korean army general who served as the leader of South Korea from 1979 to 1988, ruling as an unelected leader from December 1979 to September 1980, and the fifth President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for his role in the Gwangju Massacre, but later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam with the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung, who Chun's administration had sentenced to death some 20 years earlier.