Original: Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for the Gwangju massacre , but later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam with the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung , whom Chun himself had sentenced to death some 20 years earlier .
Simplified: Chun Doo-hwan ( born 18 January , 1931 ) was a Korean military officer and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988 .