Ruler · 1917 – 1979

Park Chung Hee

Lived 1917 – 1979; politician. President of South Korea (South Korea), 1963 – 1979; also in the line of Third Republic of Korea and Fourth Republic of Korea.

Wikidata's English label: Park Chung-hee.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1917 – 1979; 62 years
In office: 16 years; one reign
Lines: 3; states
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of South Korea

South Korea · the 6th of 19 dated reigns · 1948 – 2025

2 before

Ho Chong1960

Gwak Sanghun1960

Yun Po-sun1960 – 1962

Park Chung Hee1963 – 1979

Chun Doo-hwan1979

Choi Kyu-hah1979

Chun Doo-hwan1980 – 1981

10 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1963 – 1979 · 16 years · came to it aged 46

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; gunshot wound

the term records: death in office

In 1979, Park was assassinated by his close friend Kim Jae-gyu, director of the KCIA, following the Busan–Masan Uprising.

Also in the line of Third Republic of Korea (5th of 5) and Fourth Republic of Korea (1st of 4, read from the line of South Korea).

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