Lee Soon-ja

Lee Soon-ja (Hangul: 이순자, Hanja: 李順子) (born 24 March 1939) is the widow of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan. She was the first lady when Chun Doo-hwan was in office, from 1980 to 1988.[1]

Lee Soon-ja
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First Lady of South Korea
In role
1 September 1980 – 24 February 1988
PresidentChun Doo-hwan
Preceded byHong Gi
Succeeded byKim Ok-suk
Personal details
Born (1939-03-24) 24 March 1939 (age 84)
Chōshun, Manchukuo, Empire of Japan
(now Changchun, Jilin Province, China)
Spouse(s)
Chun Doo-hwan
(m. 1958; died 2021)
Children4
ReligionBuddhism (formerly Roman Catholic)
Lee Soon-ja
Hangul이순자
Hanja
Revised Romanization<span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">I Sunja
McCune–Reischauer<span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">I Suncha

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