Hanahoe
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Etymology 1
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[edit]Hanahoe
- A surname from Irish.
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Korean 하나회 (Hanahoe).
Proper noun
[edit]Hanahoe (uncountable)
- (historical) A secret society within the Republic of Korea Army led by Chun Doo-hwan from 1963 to 1993, which overthrew the Fourth Republic and was heavily involved in politics of the Fifth Republic of Korea.
- 1997, Sunhyuk Kim, “State and Civil Society in South Korea's Democratic Consolidation: Is the Battle Really over?”, in Asian Survey[1], volume 37, number 12, page 1141:
- Kim also reshaped civil-military relations. He chose an army chief of staff who was known to be without political aspirations and was not from the elite Hanahoe faction of the Korean Military Academy, whose members had intruded on politics in the past
- 2003 April 2, Brian Lee, “The Inner Circle”, in Korea JoongAng Daily[2]:
- Like most businesses, in the army promotions are based on performance. Those in the military who fall short of expectations or have bad track records eventually fail to rise in the ranks.
But Mr. Shin apparently failed because he was a member of Hanahoe, a secret brotherhood that all but ran the army’s officer corps for 20 years.
- 2022 October 25, Insoo Kim, David Kuehn, “The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?”, in Journal of Strategic Studies[3], volume 45, numbers 6-7, page 867:
- Park sponsored a select group of Korea Military Academy graduates called the Hanahoe (‘Group One’) to become his personal praetorian guard within the military.
- 2023 November 30, Kwon Hyuk-chul, “How Chun Doo-hwan seized power in a coup — and why it’s unlikely to happen now”, in The Hankyoreh[4]:
- To answer that question, we need to consider Hanahoe, as Chun’s clique was called, as well as Chun’s position at the head of the DSC.