Praise for man-of-the-match against Scotland Ahn Jung-Hwan has been abundant in the country's media.
Another general, Chun Doo-hwan, imposed martial law as he moved to take over the presidency.
Capital punishment was routine under the autocratic regimes of president Park Chung Hee and his successor Chun Doo Hwan.
South Korea's Park Tae-Hwan won the silver in an Asian record of 1:44.85 with American Peter Vanderkaay third in 1:45.14.
Okada made the rare apology during a joint news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan, Korean state-run media reported.
This process culminated in the jailing of his two predecessors as President, Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo, on corruption charges.
"A lot of them would like to go to Stanford's campus, but they lack the time, " says Kim Kyung-Hwan, the federation's program manager.
During Mr Kim Young Sam's presidency, two former presidents, Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo, were jailed for treason, insurrection and taking bribes.
Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, both former presidents, went to jail for soliciting hundreds of millions of dollars from the country's biggest business groups.
South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan accused the North of a "clear breach of the UN resolution that prohibits any launch using ballistic missile technology".
In 1988 in South Korea, an estimated 20, 000 police stopped students from carrying out a threat to seize and kill former leader Chun Doo Hwan.
One is loyal to Kim Young Sam, while the allegiance of the other lies with disgraced former presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo.
Choi refused to take part in the trial of his convicted successors Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo, the men who ousted him from power.
They can claim a lineage that goes back to the underground movements of the 1980s, which fought against the military regime of strongman Chun Doo Hwan.
Mr. Ban met with Kim Sung-Hwan, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, before departing Paris late Thursday night on a flight to Australia.
And, in a bid to bury past traumas, Kim endorsed the pardon extended his old nemesis, former strongman Chun Doo Hwan, and ex-president Roh Tae Woo, both convicted criminals.
"For North Korea, Bae is a bargaining chip in dealing with the US, " Koh Yu-hwan, a professor of North Korean Studies at Dongguk University in Seoul told Associated Press news agency.
Yu Myung-hwan, the foreign minister, has said South Korea would take the matter to the UN Security Council for additional sanctions if there were hard evidence that North Korea was involved.
South Korea's third-largest mobile operator, which also operates landline services, said the company's networks are operating normally and it did not see any signs of a cyberattack, company spokesman Lee Jung-hwan said.
"Samsung's 50 and 30 LED monitors illustrate our commitment to releasing top-of-the-line products that are environmentally-friendly and address the needs of consumers, " said Jin-hwan Kim, Vice President, Visual Display Business, Samsung Electronics.
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On January 5th, Hong Sa Duk, a cabinet minister for political affairs, compared the transition team with the powerful executive arm of the military junta led by Chun Doo Hwan in 1980.
Defending Olympic champion Park Ta-Hwan was leading at the final turn, but the 20-year-old Sun surged past his South Korean rival in the final length to seal a place in Chinese Olympic history.
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Roh is the nation's third former president to be summoned, following in the footsteps of Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, both of whom were convicted in 1995 of receiving bribes and inciting a mutiny.
The son of poor farmers, Mr Roh had studied for the bar and then become a practising lawyer, becoming known as a people's champion after defending students who had been arrested for protesting against Chun Doo-hwan, a dictatorial leader.
But a particularly violent one in 1987 turned the tide on three decades of dictatorial rule: The death of a student brought ordinary Koreans into streets and forced then president Chun Doo Hwan to bow to demands for democracy.
In a phone call on Monday, the new US Secretary of State John Kerry and his South Korean counterpart Kim Sung-hwan agreed that if North Korea "continues its provocative behaviour and takes further steps, that there must be further consequences", State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.
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