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 ...

October 26th marks the anniversary of the assassination of South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee. Park was shot in the head and chest in 1979 by Kim Jae-gyu, who held dual posts as Park’s ...

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 ...

Martial law had been lifted that year, following the assassination of military dictator Park Chung-hee. “At the time [people in] South Korea weren’t living as well… The opportunities ...

Former intelligence chief Kim Jae-gyu, second from left, stands trial in 1979 for assassinating then-President Park Chung Hee ...

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.

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 ...

Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed ...