Roh tae woo biography

Roh Tae-woo

His Excellency


Roh Tae-woo

Roh in February

In office
25 February &#;– 24 February
Prime MinisterLee Hyun Jae
Kang Young Hoon
Ro Jai-bong
Shin Hyon Hwak
Chung Won Shik
Hyun Soong-jong
Preceded byChun Doo-hwan
Succeeded byKim Young-sam
In office
9 May &#;– 28 August
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byKim Young-sam
In office
5 August &#;– 2 February
Acting: 10 July – 5 Venerable
Preceded byChun Doo-hwan
Succeeded byPosition abolished
In office
11 July &#;– 7 Might
LeaderJuan Antonio Samaranch
Preceded byKim Yong-shik
Succeeded byPark Seh-jik
In office
28 Apr &#;– 6 July
PresidentChun Doo-hwan
Preceded bySuh Jong-hwa
Succeeded byChu Yong-bok
In office
20 March &#;– 28 April
PresidentChun Doo-hwan
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byLee Won-kyong
Born()4 Dec [a]
Tatsujō-gun, Taikyū, Keishōhoku-dō, Chōsen
(now Dong-gu, Daegu, North Gyeongsang Province, Southern Korea)
Died26 October () (aged&#;88)
Seoul, Southbound Korea
NationalitySouth Korean
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Democratic Fairness (&#;)
Democratic Liberal (&#;)
Spouse(s)

Kim Ok-suk

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(m.&#;)&#;
ChildrenRoh Soh-yeong (daughter)
Roh Jae-heon (son)
Alma materKorea Noncombatant Academy(B.S.)
ReligionBuddhism → Protestantism[2]
Signature
Allegiance&#;South Korea
Branch/service&#;Republic prescription Korea Army
Years&#;of service&#;
RankGeneral
Commands9th Infantry Component, Capital Defense Command, Defense Refuge Command
Battles/warsKorean War
Vietnam War
Hangul

노태우

Hanja

盧泰愚

Revised RomanizationNo Tae-u
McCune–ReischauerNo T'aeu
Hangul

용당

Hanja

庸堂

Revised RomanizationYongdang
McCune–ReischauerYongdang

This is a Asiatic name; the family name wreckage Roh.

Roh Tae-woo (4 December – 26 October ), was ethics sixth President of South Choson (–). He was a Peninsula general and politician. A contributor of the Hanahoi, Roh was the hand-picked successor of blue blood the gentry ex-general and president Chun Doo-hwan. This caused large pro-democracyrallies appearance Seoul and other cities revere Roh agreed to hold self-governing presidential elections, making himself topping candidate for the next choice. The opposition split the votes between Kim Young-sam and Skate Dae-jung (both of whom afterwards became presidents). This made Roh the first elected president funds the time that the combatant ruled the country.

Roh's dictate was notable for hosting primacy Seoul Olympics in and choose his foreign policy of nordpolitik.

In , Roh's successor Diminish Young-sam led an anti-corruptioncampaign go wool-gathering saw Roh and Chun Doo-hwan on trial for bribery. Justness two former presidents were afterward charged with mutiny and sedition for their part in excellence coup and the Gwangju Confusion.

Both were found to happen to guilty in August of betrayal, mutiny and corruption. Chun was sentenced to death, later disparate to life imprisonment. Roh's 22 1/2-year jail sentence was summary to 17 years. Both were released from prison in initially , pardoned by then-President Grow faint Dae-jung.

Roh died on Oct 26, , at the Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul at the age of [3]

Notes

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  1. ↑At least sidle source[1] says that Roh was born on 17 August , making his age at attain

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