3rd President of the Republic of Korea
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He shot Korea into the First World in a single generation — and shot anyone who stood in the way. Park Chung-hee's eighteen years in power delivered the fastest industrialization the planet had seen, then ended with a bullet from his own spy chief.
Park Chung-hee was the second-highest officer in the South Korean army when he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961, ending the brief Second Republic. After two years running a military junta, he won election in 1963 and launched economic reforms that became the Miracle on the Han River — state-backed conglomerates like Samsung and Hyundai, labor suppressed, growth rates that remade a war-shattered country into an export juggernaut within a decade. Popular through the 1960s, he faced stiffer resistance by 1971; the next year he staged a self-coup, declared martial law, and imposed the Yushi…
Sourced, dated quotes from Park Chung-hee
If we are weak, our country will be in jeopardy. It is the living lesson of human history of the rise and fall of nations.
But the challenge must be faced squarely. I believe we can overcome it through our own efforts. We must do so. They key is our national power.
A year ago on this day around 9:45 a.m. you came downstairs dressed in an orange Korean dress and we left together for the ceremonies.
Already into the last week of October! The dying fall holds only loneliness.
Like a Long Magnolia Blossom Bending to the Wind. Under heavy silence. Of a house in mourning. Only the cry of cicadas. Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. Seem to long for you who is now gone.
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