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- Park Chung Hee (Korean : 박정희; November 14, 1917 – October 26, 1979) was a South Korean politician and army general. After seizing power in the May 16 coup of 1961, he was elected as the third President of South Korea in 1963. He ruled the country until his assassination in 1979.
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Park Chung Hee ( Korean : 박정희; November 14, 1917 – October 26, 1979) was a South Korean politician and army general. After seizing power in the May 16 coup of 1961, he was elected as the third President of South Korea in 1963. He ruled the country until his assassination in 1979.
May 14, 2024 · Park Chung-Hee was a South Korean general and politician, president of the Republic of Korea from 1963 to his death. His 18-year rule brought about enormous economic expansion, though at the cost of civil liberties and political freedom. He was assassinated by his lifelong friend Kim Jae Kyu in 1979.
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Park Chung Hee, the third President of South Korea, was assassinated on October 26, 1979, during a dinner at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) safe house near the Blue House presidential compound in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea. It was the first assassination of a head of state in Korea in 606 years, since the assassination ...
Oct 28, 2021 · Keystone/Getty Images. By Marina Manoukian / Oct. 28, 2021 8:35 am EST. Park Chung-hee was no stranger to deadly assassination attempts. There were several attempts on his life, one of which occurred on August 15, 1974, when Mun Segwang tried to assassinate President Park in the National Theater in Seoul.
- Marina Manoukian
Blue House raid. The Blue House raid, also known in South Korea as the January 21 Incident ( Korean : 1·21 사태 ), was a raid launched by North Korean commandos in an attempt to assassinate President of South Korea Park Chung Hee in his residence at the Blue House in Seoul, on January 21, 1968.
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Oct 26, 2014 · Bachrach/Getty Images. -- South Korean President Park Chung-hee was assassinated in Seoul 35 years ago today. Park was killed when he was shot by Kim Jae Kyu, his lifelong friend and the head of Korean Central Intelligence Agency, during a private dinner party. Park's chief security officer was also killed.
An austere and frugal man, Park was president from 1961 to 1979. He became a leading Asian nation builder, rapidly modernizing the South through export-led growth while successfully protecting his nation from the communist North with the assistance of U.S. forces.
