The so-called Choongampa faction, a group with origins in the private school in Seoul where imprisoned South Korean President ...

This is exactly how graduates of the eighth class of the Korea Military Academy, with Kim Jong-pil at the helm, piloted the May 16, 1961, coup and Hanahoe — a secret society led by graduates of ...

Chun's circle of comrades from the Korea Military Academy, South Korea's West Point, were instrumental in the 1979 coup -- and bloody crackdowns -- that followed the assassination of President ...