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Chun Doo-hwan is the fifth President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. Stability in the Republic A New Republic for a New Era A Vivacious Korea A New Horizon of Friendship Opening the Door Towards a Pacific Summit South-South Cooperation Foreign Dignitaries Visiting Korea Towards Peace and Prosperity Efforts for Peaceful Unification Encounters in Peace A Nation in the Forefront President Chun Humble Origins The Character of the President A Man of the People
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Many scholars and journalists point to the tragic events that occurred in the Kwangju Popular Uprising as a pronounced materialization of the dependent nature of the relationship between U.S. and South Korea. However, this position ignores that perceptions of American complicity in the Kwangju tragedy were constructed and molded by the personal greed and ambition of Chun Doo Hwan's military regime, which effectively censored the media and intelligence agencies reporting from South Korea. This regime used the media to construct the viewpoint that the U.S. was only interested in the stability of the region, and that the U.S. actively supported the actions of the new regime. Chun's regime frequ...