Park Chung-hee's Authoritarian Growth

Park Chung-hee

Born in Seonsan-gun, Park Chung-hee seized power in the 1961 coup and ruled until his assassination in 1979. He spearheaded South Korea's rapid economic development via Five-Year Plans and industrialization, while suppressing democracy through anti-communist policies and the Yushin Constitution.

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Year	Park Chung-hee
1917	Birth of Park Chung-hee (Period: November 14, 1917, Location: Sangmo-ri, Gumi-myeon, Seonsan-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea (present-day Gumi-si))
1936	Marriage (Park Chung-hee and Kim Ho-nam, Age: 18 years old, Period: 1936, Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea (Exact location unknown))
1937	Graduation from Daegu Normal School and Primary School Teacher (Park Chung-hee, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1937–1940, Location: Daegu, and Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea)
1939	World War II (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Iran)
1940	Enrollment in the Manchukuo Military Academy and the Imperial Japanese Army Academy (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1940–1944, Location: Hsinking, Manchukuo (Present-day Changchun), Japan, Tokyo)
1946	Enlistment in the South Korean Military and Military Career (Park Chung-hee, Age: 28 years old, Period: 1946–1963, Location: Various regions in Korea)
1948	Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion (Age: 30 years old, Period: October 1948, Location: Yeosu and Suncheon, Jeollanam-do, Korea)
1950	Marriage (Park Chung-hee and Yuk Young-soo, Age: 32 years old, Period: 1950, Location: Daegu, Korea) Korean War (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1950–1953, Location: Korean Peninsula)
1961	May 16 Military Coup (Age: 43 years old, Period: May 16, 1961, Location: Seoul, Korea) Assumption of Office as Chairman of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction (Park Chung-hee, Age: 43 years old, Period: July 1961 – December 1963, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1962	Five-Year Economic Development Plans and Export-Oriented Industrialization (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1962 – 1970s, Location: All of Korea)
1963	Inauguration as President of the Republic of Korea (Park Chung-hee, Age: 46 years old, Period: December 17, 1963, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1964	People's Revolutionary Party Incidents (First and Second, Age: 46 years old, Period: 1964–1965, 1974–1975, Location: Seoul, Korea, etc.) Deployment of South Korean Troops to the Vietnam War (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1964–1973, Location: Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)) June 3 Movement (Demonstrations Against the South Korea–Japan Talks, Age: 46 years old, Period: June 3, 1964, Location: Seoul, Korea, etc.)
1965	Signing of the Treaty on Basic Relations Between Japan and the Republic of Korea (Age: 47 years old, Period: June 22, 1965, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1966	Second Korean War (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1966–1969, Location: Around the Military Demarcation Line and Demilitarized Zone between South and North Korea)
1970	Saemaul Undong (New Village Movement, Age: 52 years old, Period: 1970–, Location: Rural areas across Korea)
1972	Enactment of the Yushin Constitution and Inauguration of the Fourth Republic (Age: 54 years old, Period: October–November 1972, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1973	Kim Dae-jung Kidnapping Incident (Age: 55 years old, Period: August 8, 1973, Location: Hotel Grand Palace in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan)
1974	Mun Se-gwang Incident (Attempted Assassination of President Park Chung-hee, Age: 56 years old, Period: August 15, 1974, Location: Seoul, Korea, National Theater) Marriage to Yuk Young-soo (Age: 56 years old, Period: August 15, 1974, Location: Seoul, Korea, National Theater)
1979	Death of Park Chung-hee (Age: 61 years old, Period: October 26, 1979 (aged 61)) October 26 Incident (Assassination of Park Chung-hee, Age: 61 years old, Period: October 26, 1979, Location: Korean Central Intelligence Agency Facility in Gungpyeong-dong, Seoul, Korea) Assassination of the President and End of the Yushin System (Age: 61 years old, Period: October 26, 1979, Location: Seoul, Korea)

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Group	List
Founding of the PRC	Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Liu Shaoqi Zhu De Chen Yun Jiang Qing Hua Guofeng Ye Jianying Wang Hongwen Zhang Chunqiao
Nation-building in Taiwan	Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Ching-kuo Chen Cheng Yen Chia-kan Lee Teng-hui Sun Li-jen Koo Chen-fu James Soong (Soong Chu-yu) Kang Ning-hsiang Shih Ming-teh
State-building in South Korea	Syngman Rhee Park Chung-hee Chun Doo-hwan Roh Tae-woo Kim Young-sam Kim Dae-jung Chang Myon Kim Jong-pil Lee Byung-chul Chung Ju-yung Kim Jae-gyu
Post-war Reconstruction of Japan	Shigeru Yoshida Ichiro Hatoyama Nobusuke Kishi Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Sato Kakuei Tanaka Takeo Fukuda Masayoshi Ohira Yasuhiro Nakasone Takeo Miki

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