Chung-hee was a former Republic of Korea ... over whether the shooting was accidental or an assassination. During his trial, Kim said he killed Park so that democracy could be restored in South ...

In the early evening of Oct. 26, 1979, the Korean President Park Chung-hee sat down to dinner for ... his wife Yook Young-soo was killed during an assassination attempt on his own life.

Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea with an iron fist for more than 15 years before he was killed. (AFP pic) A South Korean court said today it had reopened the case of the assassination of former ...

A huge Card stunt which is honoring Park Chung-hee is being performed. (Photo by Baek, Jong-sik, via Courthouse News) Park's assassination stunned the country and domestic security chief Chun Doo-hwan ...

Kim Shin Jo, a former North Korean commando known for his involvement in a failed assassination attempt on then-South Korean president Park Chung Hee in 1968, has died at the age of 82.

In a news conference arranged by South Korean authorities, Kim stunned the nation by saying that his team came “to slit the throat of Park Chung-hee.” Sign up for the Breaking News newsletter ...

In 1974, Park’s mother was killed in a botched assassination attempt on her ... Five years after her mother’s death, Park Chung-hee was also assassinated – killed by his own security chief.

Last year, a blockbuster movie gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, when the assassination of President Park Chung-hee in 1979 led to a ...

Her father, Park Chung-hee, was a military dictator who ran the country from the time he carried out a 1961 military coup until his assassination in 1979. His memory still stirs mixed emotions ...