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Choi Kyu-hah

President of South Korea from 1979 to 1980

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Choi Kyu-hah was a South Korean politician who served as the fourth president of South Korea from 1979 to 1980. An independent politician, he served as the prime minister under the administration of President Park Chung Hee from 1975 to 1979.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Choi Kyu-hah” is president of South Korea from 1979 to 1980. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Choi, Kyu-hah and President, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1980, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Choi, Kyu-hah and President is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “president of South Korea from 1979 to 1980” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1980 and 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Choi Kyu-hah” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.