State · 1972 – 1981
Fourth Republic of Korea
A state of 1972 – 1981 — 9 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Third Republic of Korea. It was replaced by Fifth Republic of Korea. The atlas records 1 thing within it — regime change 1. Its line of rulers holds 3 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.
- Wikidata's English label: Fourth Republic of South Korea.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 9 years
- 1972 – 1981
- Rulers
- 3
- the De facto leader of South Korea
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Third Republic of Korea · replaces · 1963 – 1972
After it
- Fifth Republic of Korea · replaced by · 1981 – 1988
How it ended, as its article says
Dissolved, 1981-03. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
The Fourth Republic was dissolved on the adoption of a new constitution in March 1981 and replaced with the Fifth Republic of Korea.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
3 terms are shared from [object Object].
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Chung Hee · from the line of South Korea | 1972 – 1979 | 7 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Chun Doo-hwan | 1979 – 1979 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Choi Kyu-hah · from the line of South Korea | 1979 – 1979 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Chun Doo-hwan · from the line of South Korea | 1980 – 1981 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1972 – 1981. Only 9 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 2 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.80, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, undatedFlag of South Korea (1949–1984) · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedEmblem of South Korea · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19991 row · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Coup d'état of May Seventeenth · adverse regime change · 1980
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood9 years
stood longer than 17% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1962 – 1991, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1977, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q488521 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.