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  "name": "South Korea",
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  "region": "Eastern Asia",
  "press_freedom": null,
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      "name": "Detention and violence",
      "count": 1
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        "slug": "1980-south-korea-chun-doo-hwan-press-purge",
        "title": "South Korea's martial-law government purges journalists who resisted press controls",
        "occurred_on": "1980-07-31",
        "occurred_on_precision": "day",
        "country": "KR",
        "country_name": "South Korea",
        "continent": "asia",
        "jurisdiction": "KR",
        "level": "national",
        "tactic_primary": "outlet_licensing",
        "tactics": [
          "detention_and_violence",
          "outlet_licensing"
        ],
        "leader_slug": "chun-doo-hwan",
        "leader_name": "Chun Doo-hwan",
        "issue_of_the_day": "Chun Doo-hwan's military government had just suppressed a pro-democracy uprising centered in the city of Kwangju in May 1980, and used the purge to remove journalists it associated with resistance to press press controls during that period.",
        "outcome": "reversed",
        "outcome_on": "1987-06-01",
        "outcome_note": "South Korea's June 1987 democracy movement led to direct presidential elections and an easing of press controls; a 1986 leak of secret press guidelines had already embarrassed the government.",
        "era": "1980s",
        "granularity": "anchor",
        "status": "historical",
        "case_count": 0,
        "summary": "Under General Chun Doo-hwan's martial-law government, South Korean authorities ordered newsrooms in 1980 to purge journalists who had resisted press controls or joined a May sit-in strike for press freedom, and closed 172 periodicals, dismissing roughly 2,000 journalists in total.",
        "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1980-south-korea-chun-doo-hwan-press-purge"
      }
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    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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