<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_South_Korean_presidential_election" id="mwAUo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1980 South Korean presidential election">South Korean presidential election</a>: After successfully staging the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'état_of_May_Seventeenth" id="mwAUs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coup d'état of May Seventeenth">Coup d'état of May Seventeenth</a>, General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun_Doo-hwan" id="mwAUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chun Doo-hwan">Chun Doo-hwan</a>, running unopposed, has the National Conference for Unification elect him <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_South_Korea" id="mwAU0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of South Korea">President of the Fourth Republic of Korea</a>.<sup about="#mwt73" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_27#cite_note-12" id="mwAU4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAU8">[12]</span></a></sup>
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