{"id":39155,"date":"2021-11-23T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T05:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/former-south-korean-dictator-chun-doo-hwan-dies-aged-90"},"modified":"2021-11-23T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T05:08:04","slug":"former-south-korean-dictator-chun-doo-hwan-dies-aged-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39155","title":{"rendered":"Former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-hwan dies aged 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chun ruled for eight years after seizing power in a coup in 1979, and presided over the infamous 1980 Gwanju student massacre <\/p>\n<p>Former South Korean president, Chun Doo-hwan, who presided over the infamous Gwanju massacre during his iron-fisted eight-year rule, has died aged 90.<\/p>\n<p>Chun had multiple myeloma, a blood cancer which was in remission, and his health had deteriorated recently, his former press secretary Min Chung-ki told reporters. He passed away at his Seoul home early in the morning and his body will be moved to a hospital for a funeral later in the day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/former-south-korean-dictator-chun-doo-hwan-dies-aged-90\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chun ruled for eight years after seizing power in a coup in 1979, and presided over the infamous 1980 Gwanju student massacre Former South Korean president, Chun Doo-hwan, who presided over the infamous Gwanju massacre during his iron-fisted eight-year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39181,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39155\/revisions\/39181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}