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Court orders SK chairman to pay ex-wife 944 billion won

A Seoul appeals court ruled Friday that Chey Tae-won should pay 944 billion won ($644 million) in cash to his former wife Roh Soh-yeong while reaffirming that his SK shares are marital property.

2026.7.24

Late presidents Roh Tae-woo, left, and Chun Doo Hwan stand in a courtroom in Seoul in 1996 to receive their first ruling on a military coup that helped them seize state power in 1979. [JOONGANG ILBO]

Military units banned from hanging photos of late presidents who led 1979 coup

Photos of late former presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae-woo, who led the Dec. 12 military coup of 1979, will no longer be allowed to be displayed at military units.

2026.2.3

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This photo shows Ro Jae-hun, new Korean ambassador to China.[NEWS1]

Son of ex-President Roh Tae-woo formally appointed as ambassador to China

Ro Jae-hun, the son of former President Roh Tae-woo who ruled Korea in the early 1990s, has formally assumed the position as new ambassador to China, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

2025.10.16

Punishment of 1979 coup leader Chun Doo Hwan foreshadows Yoon's potential fate

Prosecutors have labeled President Yoon Suk Yeol as the 'mastermind' of an insurrection, paralleling historical cases against former presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae-woo.

2024.12.11

How to become a self-illuminating president

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol as a prosecutor was legendary.

2022.4.18

Reevaluating Roh’s legacy

“I love Germany so much,” wrote the French novelist Francois Mauriac, “that I am glad there are two of them.” This is how Europeans once felt about the country.It was a miracle of modern history that Germany was reunified before...

2021.11.1

Funeral procession

A crowd watches the state funeral procession for former President Roh Tae-woo pass by Olympic Park in Songpa District, southern Seoul, on Saturday.

2021.10.31

Passed by

A mourning altar for former President Roh Tae-woo was set up on Seoul Plaza in front of Seoul City Hall on Thursday. but few mourners paid tribute, even at lunch time, when many people pass by.

2021.10.28

Park Nam-son, right, who headed the situation room run by pro-democracy protesters at the South Jeolla provincial government office in May 1980, offers his condolences to Roh's daughter Roh So-young and son Roh Jae-hyun at former president Roh Tae-woo's funerary altar at Seoul National University Hospital on Wednesday. [PRESS POOL]

Roh begged forgiveness from Gwangju victims

Former president Roh Tae-woo asked in his will for forgiveness from victims of the military junta's brutal 1980 suppression of the Gwangju pro-democracy protests, as the government announced Wednesday it would hold a state funeral for him.

2021.10.27

Former President Roh Tae-woo, who died on Tuesday at the age of 88, is shown in this file photo at the opening ceremony for the Seoul Summer Olympic Games in 1988. [YONHAP]

Roh Tae-woo, who restored direct elections, dies at 88

Former President Roh Tae-woo, who gave in to nationwide street protests in 1987 to allow direct presidential elections and began normalizing relations with socialist countries, passed away on Tuesday, according to his aides.

2021.10.26