S. Korean dictator’s grandson offers apology for 1980 massacre
Chun Woo-won , grandson of former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan, consoles family members of victims of a pro-democracy uprising against military dictatorship in 1980, as he visits the May 18 National Cemetery in Gwangju today. – AFP pic, March 31, 2023.
THE grandson of former South Korean military dictator Chun Doo-hwan apologised today for a massacre committed in the 1980s, a move hailed by victims’ relatives and analysts as symbolic and significant. Chun Woo-won, 27, became the first member of his family to visit the Gwangju cemetery and say sorry for the 1980 crackdown on a democracy uprising, which killed at least about 200 people, according to official estimates.
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