1980 in South Korea

← 1979 1978 1977 1980 in South Korea → 1981 1982 1983
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
See also:	Other events of 1980 Years in South Korea Timeline of Korean history 1980 in North Korea

Events from the year 1980 in South Korea.

Incumbents

• President: Choi Kyu-hah (until 16 August), Chun Doo-hwan (starting 1 September)
• Prime Minister:
  • until 22 May: Shin Hyun-hwak
  • 22 May-2 September: Pak Choong-hoon
  • starting 2 September: Nam Duck-woo

Events

• May 17 - Coup d'état of May Seventeenth: General Chun Doo-hwan forces the Cabinet to extend martial law to the whole nation.^[1]
• May 18–27 - Gwangju massacre: Up to 165 people are killed when a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju is crushed by the South Korean army.^[2]
• May 20 - Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo order the National Assembly of Korea to be dissolved, using troops to enforce the order.
• July 8- Miss Universe 1980
• August 27 - Chun Doo-hwan is elected President of South Korea by the "National Conference for Unification".^[3]

Films

• Fine Windy Day
• The Hidden Hero
• Neumi
• Painful Maturity
• Son of Man
• The Last Witness

Births

• 13 February - Lee Sang-woo.
• 4 March - Jeong Da-bin.
• 20 March - Ock Joo-hyun.
• 21 March - Lee Jin.
• 5 April - Lee Jae-won.
• 4 May - Park Jong-Jin.
• 19 August - Jun Jin.
• 16 November - Lee Eun-ju.
• 7 December - Choi Jung-in.
• 19 December - Verbal Jint.

Deaths

• May 24 - Kim Jae-gyu, South Korean Army Lieutenant General, director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, and assassin of President Park Chung-hee (born 1926; executed by hanging)^[4]

See also

• List of South Korean films of 1980

References

1. May, The Triumph of Democracy. Ed. Shin Bok-jin, Hwang Chong-gun, Kim Jun-tae, Na Kyung-taek, Kim Nyung-man, Ko Myung-jin. Gwangju: May 18 Memorial Foundation, 2004.
2. "5월단체, "5.18 관련 사망자 606명"" (in Korean). Yeonhap News. 2005-05-13. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
3. "Chun Doo Hwan". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
4. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eTWqpOOXI_QC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=execution+of+Kim_Jae-gyu&source=bl&ots=bYq0vtLL6Q&sig=8bebTRVreXIAun-2uJpVjiVG31c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WpWkUqexN4us7QbQ2oGgDw&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=execution%20of%20Kim_Jae-gyu&f=false Building Bridges: Is There Hope for North Korea? by David Alton & Rob Chidley, Lion Books, 1988, p28