Chun Doo-hwan was the fourth son of Chun Sang-woo and Kim Jeong-mun. Chun's oldest two brothers, Yeol-hwan and Kyuu-gon, died in an accident when he was an infant. Chun grew up knowing his ...

Chun Doo-hwan was born on January 18th, 1931, to a farming family in Hapcheon in what is now southern South Korea. Korea was a colony of Japan at the time. While his father, Chun Sang-woo ...