Recreating the power grab by President Park Chung-hee, Kim Sung-su’s meticulously ... adding a disclaimer that characters and events “have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.” ...

By Motoko Rich The fire destroyed part of a memorial to Park Chung-hee, the assassinated dictator and father of South Korea’s embattled president, Park Geun-hye. A bizarre scandal and an ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a controversy brewing over allegations that the statue of former President Park Chung-hee recently erected in front of Dongdaegu Station resembles Daegu Mayor Hong Jun-pyo. The artist who ...

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.” The infiltration, which also killed about ...