Jang Tae-wan (Korean: 장태완; Hanja: 張泰玩, 13 September 1931 – 26 July 2010) was an army general and politician of South Korea.
The Hanahoe, the group of South Korean military officers who were the instigators of the coup d'état, tried to appease Jang.
[2] While his son, a student of Korea's Top Ranked Seoul National University, died in January 1982 under suspicious circumstances and was reputedly murdered by government agents; Jang's father starved himself to death.
Jang Tae-Wan died of lung cancer on July 26, 2010 at the age of 78 and was buried with full honors in the Generals' section of Daejeon National Cemetery.
[5] The 2023 South Korean movie 12.12: The Day has a fictional commander modeled after him named Lee Tae-shin, who fights against the coup attempt in 1979.