Jeong Seung-hwa
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Jeong Seung-hwa | |
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General | |
| Commands held | Chief of Staff of the Army II Corps Capital Mechanized Infantry Division 3rd Infantry Division 10th Infantry Brigade(Mechanized) 26th Infantry Regiment |
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| Hangul | 정승화 |
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| Revised Romanization | Jeong Seunghwa |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chŏng Sŭnghwa |
Jeong Seung-hwa (정승화, 鄭昇和; 27 February 1929 – 12 June 2002) was a South Korean
Biography
Born on 27 February 1929 in
In 1978, Jeong was appointed Army Chief of Staff, the most dominant role in the South Korean military. On the evening of 26 October 1979, while Jeong was dining at the
Instead, an emergency cabinet meeting was convened at which Choi Kyu-hah, the prime minister, was declared acting president with Jeong implementing martial law. He plotted to exclude political soldiers such as the Hanahoe, an influential group of South Korean military officers. The group later instigated the Coup d'état of December Twelfth. As a result, key members of the Hanahoe, such as Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, arrested Jeong on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of Park.[3][4]
As a punishment, Jeong was reduced in rank to private and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1997, 17 years after the coup d'état, Jeong was cleared of any involvement in the death of Park by the Seoul District Court. He was restored to his general officer rank and received pay that had been forfeited at the time of his sentencing.[5] He died on 12 June 2002 in Seoul.[1]
In popular culture
Jeong is portrayed in the 2023 South Korean movie 12.12: The Day under the pseudonym "Jeong Sang Ho".
See also
Notes
- ^ a b "Chung Sung-Hwa". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ Wickham 1999, p. 12.
- ^ Oberdorfer 1997, pp. 114–117.
- Korea Herald. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
- ^ Wickham 1999, p. 73.
References
- ISBN 0-201-40927-5.
- ISBN 1-57906-023-4.