A look at political rule in South Korea as it alternated between dictatorship and democracy
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Political rule in South Korea has alternated between dictatorship and democracy since the division of the Korean peninsula after World War II. Three of the country’s presidents ruled with iron fists. The regimes of Syngman Rhee, General Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan were marked by severe human rights violations and suppression of dissent. Despite this tumultuous political history, South Korea’s first free Democratic elections took place in 1992.
