SOUTH KOREA: PRESIDENTS CHUN DOO HWAN AND ROH TAE WOO PROFILE

Korean/Nat APTV Looks back on the events which culminated with Chun being sentenced to death and Roh facing years in jail. Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo were childhood friends who followed each other into the military and now they will be following each other to prison. Chun was sentenced to death by a panel of three judges after being found guilty of overthrowing the government in 1979. But observers believe the sentence is unlikely to be carried out - it will automatically be referred to the