Former South Korean President Chun Doo-Hwan dead at 90

Former South Korean President Chun Doo-Hwan dead at 90
# 23 November 2021 08:27 (UTC +04:00)

Chun Doo-Hwan, South Korea's fifth president, has died. Chun, who was 90, had served as South Korea's president from 1980 to 1988, following a coup d’état, APA reports citing Yonap.

Chun died at his home in Seoul at 8:40 a.m. It was reported in August that he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that affects plasma cells.

He reportedly died of cardiac arrest.

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