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  1. 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 3rd President of South Korea in 1963. He ruled the country from 1962 until his assassination in 1979.

  2. 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.

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  3. Aug 10, 2011 · The history of modern Korea is dominated by the figure of Park Chung-hee. Through his vision and forceful conviction, the compact dictator — Park was 1.63 meters tall — transformed a people...

  4. 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.

  5. Park Jung Hee took over the most threatened country in the world in 1961. South Korea had been devastated by the Korean War just a few years earlier. Its economy remained one of the world’s poorest. Its political stability appeared to be among the world’s poorest.

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  7. In the early morning hours of May 16, 1961 just before dawn, military units mobilized on key locations in Seoul north of the Han River, the seat of power in the Republic of Korea. Encountering minimal resistance, by 4:15 AM the forces had occupied the three branches of government.