The fact that Park Geun Hye is the daughter of Park Chung Hee doesn't give her anywhere near the sort of power that he had.
Chun Doo hwa didn't order soldiers to slaughter Koreans all on his own. He ahd to get US approval to move a Korean division of soldiers under joint US-Korean command to Kwangju to carry out the slaughter.
Yeah, I know. As Cumings put it...
Indeed, reading through the materials makes it clear that leading liberals _ like Jimmy Carter and his ambassador in Seoul, William Gleysteen, his National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and especially Richard Holbrooke (then under-secretary of state for East Asia) have blood on their hands from 1980: the blood of hundreds of murdered or tortured young people in Gwangju.
But I'm not sure what that has to do with public opinion in the ROK circa 2013.