Roh Tae-woo (Hangeul 노태우, Hanja 盧泰愚, Romanisation revised No Tae-u, McCune-Reischauer No You ae-u) is a former general and a South Korean politician , born the December 4th 1932 with Daegu.

Following the demonstrations of 1987, which gathered to 100.000 people on July 8th in Seoul, the Head of the South Korean State, the general Chun Doo-hwan, accepted the election of the new president of the Republic by the universal direct suffrage (source). Chosen like the successor of Chun Doo-hwan, the Roh general gained the organized election on December 16th, 1987 (with 35,9% of the voices) with the favor in particular of the division of the opposition between Kim Young-Sam (27,5%) and Kim Dae-jung (26,5%) (source).

Its mandate (1988-1993) was marked by the organization of the Jeux of the XXIV {{E}} Olympiad with Seoul, and the joint entry of both Korea with UNO in 1991. In addition, a new Constitution was adopted in 1988. The same year, 2.000 political prisoners were released.

Following the countryside anti-corruption carried out after 1993 by its successor Kim Young-Sam, and of the calling into question of their role in the Rising of Kwangju in 1980 (on this last point implying a charge of " trahison" , to see), Roh Tae-woo was condemned, like its predecessor Chun Doo-hwan. The sorrow of Roh Tae-woo, of twenty-two years and half of prison, was reduced to seventeen years in call, before it is released at the beginning of 1998, on the intervention of the new president Kim Dae-jung (source: NewYork Times ).

References

• Wire-information-France

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