Chung Hee Park (1917-1979) was a soldier, revolutionary leader, and president of South Korea from 1963 to 1979. He led the military coup of May 16, 1961, which toppled the Korean Second Republic and President Syngman Rhee. Pak Chông-hui (who...

(1917–1979), Third president of the Republic of Korea. Park Chung Hee (Pak Chong-hui) gained political control of South Korea through a military coup on 16 May 1961. He first ruled through a military junta called the Supreme Council for National...

South Korean President Park Chung Hee (1917–1979) set forth the idea of yushin ("revitalization" or "reform") in October 1972 when he suspended the national constitution and dissolved the national assembly. Yushin, as...

General Park Chung-Hee ruled South Korea from his successful coup in 1963 until he was assassinated in 1979. He silenced his opposition and gave himself dictatorial powers. He oversaw his country's economic development, moving South Korea from the ruins of the Korean War of...

SEOUL IN THE CHILL of early winter I witnessed two demonstrations espousing causes that seemed undeniably just. At the first, in central Seoul, there were fewer than 100 people carrying signs--some of them in English--against the Chinese policy of sending North Korean...

South Korea's election watchdog ruled Thursday that President Roh Moo-hyun violated election laws by criticizing the opposition party ahead of this year's presidential vote.The National Election Commission found that Roh's recent comments criticizing the conservative Grand National Party and its two leading presidential candidates violated...

The daughter of a former South Korean military ruler formally declared her presidential candidacy Monday, apologizing for those who suffered under her father's rule while promising to resolve the North Korea nuclear standoff.Park Geun-hye, the former head of the main opposition Grand National Party, is...