Since 2017, South Korean actress Han So-hee has appeared in a number of K-dramas, and each of her roles has been uniquely ...

Park Chung-hee, in short, was a dictator ... the seeds of great expectations had been sown. The national character was transformed. Early western observers considered Koreans charming but indolent ...

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.” ...

For Park Seo-joon and Han So-hee, engaging in hand-to-hand combat ... “I was very much drawn to my character because she has a lot of different charms. And I think a period drama has that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...