Title: President of South Korea Content: The President of the Republic of Korea  is the head of state, leader of the executive of the South Korean government and the commander-in-chief of the South Korean Armed Forces The president is directly elected by the people to a five-year term, with no possibility of re-election.Article 70 of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea. While in office, the chief executive lives in Cheong Wa Dae (the "Blue House"). If the National Assembly votes against a presidential decision, it will be declared void immediately. ==Powers and duties of the president== The president is required to: * uphold the Constitution * preserve the safety and homeland of South Korea * work for the peaceful reunification of Korea, typically act as the Chairperson of the National Unification Advisory Council ==List of presidents== ImageSize = width:210 height:750 PlotArea = left:35 right:50 top:15 bottom:100 DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1948 till:2022 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical order:reverse ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1950 ScaleMinor = increment:1 start:1948 # there is no automatic collision detection, # so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap Colors= id:con value:rgb(0.87,0.27,0.27) id:lib value:rgb(0.14,0.37,0.70) id:act value:pink Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar PlotData= bar:Federal_chancellors color:white width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:10 shift:($dx,-5) from: 1948 till: 1960 color:con text:"Rhee Syng- man" from: 1960 till: 1962 color:lib text:"Yun Posun" from: 1962 till: 1979 color:con text:"Park Chung-hee" from: 1979 till: 1980 color:con text:"Choi Kyu-hah" from: 1980 till: 1988 color:con text:"Chun Doo-hwan" from: 1988 till: 1993 color:con text:"Roh Tae-woo" from: 1993 till: 1998 color:con text:"Kim Young-sam" from: 1998 till: 2003 color:lib text:"Kim Dae-jung" from: 2003 till: 2008 color:lib text:"Roh Moo-hyun" from: 2008 till: 2013 color:con text:"Lee Myung-bak" from: 2013 till: 2017 color:con text:"Park Geun-hye" from: 2017 till: 2022 color:lib text:"Moon Jae-in" from: 2022 till: 2022 color:con text:"Yoon Suk-yeol" File:Rhee Syng-Man in 1948.jpg|Rhee Syngman 1st–3rd term (served: 1948–1960) File:Yun Bo-seon.jpg|Yun Posun 4th term (served: 1960–1962) File:Park_Chung-hee.jpg|Park Chung-hee 5th–9th term (served: 1962–1979) File:19700408崔圭夏.jpg|Choi Kyu-hah 10th term (served: 1979–1980) File:Chun Doo-hwan 1983 (cropped).JPEG|Chun Doo-hwan 11th–12th term (served: 1980–1988) File:Roh_Tae-woo_-_cropped,_1989-Mar-13.jpg|Roh Tae-woo 13th term (served: 1988–1993) File:Kim Young-sam presidential portrait.jpg|Kim Young-sam 14th term (served: 1993–1998) File:Kim Dae-jung presidential portrait.jpg|Kim Dae-jung 15th term (served: 1998–2003) File:Roh Moo-hyun presidential portrait.jpg|Roh Moo-hyun 16th term (served: 2003–2008) File:Lee Myung-bak presidential portrait.jpg|Lee Myung-bak 17th term (served: 2008–2013) File:Park Geun-hye presidential portrait.png|Park Geun-hye 18th term (served: 2013–2017) File:South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol portrait.jpg|Yoon Suk-yeol 20th term (since 2022) ==Living former presidents== As of , three former presidents are alive:  The longest-lived President was Yun Bo-seon, who died on July 18, 1990 (at the age of ). The most recent President to die was Chun Doo-hwan, who died on November 23, 2021.