{"id":39287,"date":"2021-11-27T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T07:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/27\/widow-of-former-south-korean-dictator-chun-doo-hwan-offers-deep-apology-for-brutal-rule"},"modified":"2021-11-27T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T07:24:11","slug":"widow-of-former-south-korean-dictator-chun-doo-hwan-offers-deep-apology-for-brutal-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39287","title":{"rendered":"Widow of former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-hwan offers \u2018deep apology\u2019 for brutal rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the final funeral service Lee Soon-ja says sorry for the pains suffered during her husband\u2019s reign <\/p>\n<p>The widow of South Korea\u2019s last military dictator has issued a brief apology over the \u201cpains and scars\u201d caused by her husband\u2019s brutal rule as dozens of relatives and former aides gathered at a Seoul hospital to pay their final respects to Chun Doo-hwan.<\/p>\n<p>Chun, who took power in a 1979 coup and violently crushed pro-democracy protests a year later before being jailed for treason in the 1990s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/former-south-korean-dictator-chun-doo-hwan-dies-aged-90\">died at his Seoul home Tuesday<\/a> at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/27\/widow-of-former-south-korean-dictator-chun-doo-hwan-offers-deep-apology-for-brutal-rule\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the final funeral service Lee Soon-ja says sorry for the pains suffered during her husband\u2019s reign The widow of South Korea\u2019s last military dictator has issued a brief apology over the \u201cpains and scars\u201d caused by her husband\u2019s brutal rule as doz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39287","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39288,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39287\/revisions\/39288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}