Roh Tae-woo

✶December 4, 1932

†October 26, 2021

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About their life

Roh Tae-woo was a South Korean army general and politician who served as the sixth president of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. In 1987, he became the first president to be directly elected under the current democratic constitution, which was promulgated after a lengthy period of indirect elections under military governments following the advent of the Yushin Constitution in 1972.

President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993

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