In 1979, as South Korea went through incidents like 10·26 incident and 12.12 Military Insurrection, Chun Doo-hwan rose to power and censored all press releases based on martial law. In february of 1980, Chun newly installed a press unit in the Defense Security Command. In the press unit, an attempt to lure journalists by the K-press work plan was and tried to make the press make editorials that looked at democracy activism in a negative light. These attempts continued until late August of 1980. The Defense Security Command and the Korean Central Intelligence Agency did the pre work for the policy based on information about the journalists and the press, justifying it as a recovery of impartiality and public values.