1. Song Yo-chan ordered the arrest of corrupt officers in the army.
18 Facts About Song Yo-chan
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Song Yo-chan had studied politics and economics at George Washington University in Washington, DC During the final days of the First Republic of South Korea of president Syngman Rhee, he declared martial law and forced the president to resign.
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Song Yo-chan was born on February 13,1918, in Cheongyang County, Chuseinan-do, Korea, Empire of Japan.
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Song Yo-chan was the second of two brothers and 6 daughters.
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Song Yo-chan attempted to get a job during 6th grade in 1929, but his mother prohibited him from doing so.
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Song Yo-chan was later promoted to Private First class and adopted the Japanese name Sadao Nakamura at the end of 1940.
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Song Yo-chan was made the military assistant of the Volunteer Corps Training Center.
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Song Yo-chan was discharged at the end of the war after the Japanese pulled out of Korea.
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Song Yo-chan was part of a network of former Japanese Korean volunteers in the military, and he held contempt for all the other networks such as the Kwantung Army network and the Manchurian Army network.
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Song Yo-chan learned English on his own and was later able to communicate with US military advisers.
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Song Yo-chan then set up a campaign to bomb and capture Wonsan, Hamhung, and Chongjin.
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Song Yo-chan then served as deputy division commander of the 8th Mechanized Infantry Division, promoted to major general, then made commander of the 8th Mechanized Infantry Division, where he studied in the United States in July 1953 and graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College.
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Song Yo-chan returned home in August 1954, was promoted to lieutenant general in October of that same year, then again reappointed as the head of the 8th Mechanized Infantry Division, then made head of the 3rd Corps, and later in July 1956 he again traveled to the United States, where he conducted 1 month of local inspections and returned home in August.
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Song Yo-chan entered the Graduate School of Defense in August 1956, completing it by May of '57.
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Song Yo-chan was appointed commander of the 1st Field Army in May 1957 and Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Army in August 1959.
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Song Yo-chan served as the Martial Law Commander in the Seoul area in March 1960, and when the demonstrations of student protesters protesting the March 1960 South Korean presidential election results escalated to the April Revolution, he visited Gyeonggi Province on April 20,1960, at the call of President Syngman Rhee, to plan a redress of the situation.
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Song Yo-chan resigned from the posts of Prime Minister, and Director of the Economic Planning Board, and then he urged the military government to transfer power back to civilian politicians and return to the military after the redress of the situation due to the revolutionary pledge, and after receiving criticism from Kim Hyun-chul, he fought back against these accusations.
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Song Yo-chan died of kidney disease on October 18,1980, in the Loyola University Hospital of Chicago.