Roh Tae-woo
President of South Korea
Died when: 88 years 326 days (1066 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Roh Tae-woo (Korean: ???;Hanja: ???;Korean pronunciation: [no.t???.u]; 4 December 1932 – 26 October 2021) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the sixth president of South Korea from 1988 to 1993.
Roh was a close ally and friend of Chun Doo-hwan, the predecessor leader of the country who ruled as an unelected military dictator from 1980 to 1988, and unofficially since 1979.
In 1996, both leaders were sentenced for their roles in orchestrating coups as well as their subsequent human rights abuses such as the Gwangju Massacre, but was pardoned the following year by Kim Young-sam on advice of president-elect Kim Dae-jung.
He was a leader of the Democratic Justice Party from 1987 to 1990 and was known for having passed the June 29 Declaration in 1987 as the leader of the party.
Roh died on 26 October 2021, at the age of 88.
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