Park Chung hee

Park Chunghee was a South Korean president, and military general who led South Korea from 1961 until his assassination in 1979. Park seized power through the Maycoup, a military coup dtat that overthrew the Second Republic of South Korea in 1961 and ruled as a military strongman at the head of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction until his election and inauguration as the President of the Third Republic of South Korea in 1963. In 1972, Park declared martial law and recast the constitution into a highly authoritarian document, ushering in the Fourth Republic of South Korea. After surviving several assassination attempts, including two operations associated with North Korea, Park was assassinated onOctober 1979 by Kim Jaegyu, the chief of his own security services. He had led South Korea foryears. Parks firstborn daughter, Park Geunhye, is the current President of South Korea.

Park was born onNovember 1917, in Gumi, North Gyeongsang in Korea under Japanese rule, to parents Park Sungbin and Bek Nameui. He was the youngest of five brothers and two sisters in a poor Yangban family. As a youth, he won admission to a teaching school in Daegu and worked as a teacher in Mungyeongeup after graduating with a teaching degree, but was reportedly a very mediocre student. Following the outbreak of the Second SinoJapanese War, the ambitious Park decided to enter the Changchun Military Academy of the Manchukuo Imperial Army, with help from Imperial Japanese Army Colonel Arikawa . During this time, he adopted the Japanese name Takagi Masao . He graduated top of his class in 1942 and was recognized as a talented officer by his Japanese instructors, who recommended him for further studies at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in Japan.

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