Former President Park Geun-hye waves as she visits the birthplace of her father and late President Park Chung-hee in Gumi, ...

Polling data suggests South Koreans approve of Park Chung-hee himself, but disapprove of the system he used to rule. A card stunt honoring Park Chung-hee at on South Korea’s Armed Forces Day in ...

In the fall of 1974, then President Park Chung-hee, who later became the ... Eighteen years later, the landscape was totally different. The poverty-stricken country had transformed into one ...

He was killed in Seoul. Portrait of the President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, United States, 1960s. Chung-hee was a former Republic of Korea Army general and leader of the Republic of Korea.

Left: Former President Park Chung Hee, who secured a third term, delivers his inaugural address in Seoul on July 1, 1971. Right: Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party ...

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 ...

June 3 (UPI) --South Korean conservatives say they will fight for the release of former presidents Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak and for commemorating a past dictator with an airport, ahead of a ...