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Park Chung Hee, the third President of South Korea, was assassinated on October 26, 1979, during a dinner at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) safe house near the Blue House presidential compound in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea.
Oct 28, 2021 · Park Chung-Hee was a controversial president of South Korea who seized power in a coup and ruled as a dictator. He was assassinated by his own security chief, Kim Jae-gyu, in 1979, but the motives behind the killing are still debated.
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President Park Chung-hee, on his way back to Cheong Wa Dae aboard a helicopter from a ceremony dedicating a flood bank at Sagpyo Lake on Oct. 26, 1979 had the chopper circle the capital.
The Blue House raid, also known in South Korea as the January 21 Incident (Korean: 1·21 사태), was a raid launched by North Korean commandos in an attempt to assassinate President of South Korea Park Chung Hee in his residence at the Blue House in Seoul, on January 21, 1968.
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On October 26, 1979, six days after the student protests ended, Park Chung Hee was fatally shot in the head and chest by Kim Jae-gyu, the director of the KCIA, after a banquet at a safehouse in Gungjeong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul.
May 14, 2024 · Park Chung-Hee (born September 30 or November 14, 1917, Gumi, North Gyeongsang province, Korea [now in South Korea]—died October 26, 1979, Seoul, South Korea) was a South Korean general and politician, president of the Republic of Korea ( South Korea) from 1963 to his death.
Oct 24, 2010 · How the Korean CIA director Kim Jae-kyu killed Park in a restaurant in the Blue House compound after a heated argument over civil unrest. The web page also covers the aftermath of the assassination and the controversies over the role of Kim's accomplices.
