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Grandson of late President Park Chung Hee completes Marine basic training

Park Se-hyeon, the eldest grandson of former President Park Chung Hee (1917-1979), completed basic training as a Marine on Dec. 4.

2025-12-16

Top court rules that victims of pre-1975 'vagrant' crackdowns should also be compensated

A Supreme Court ruled that the state must compensate victims who were forcibly committed to Brothers Home before a 1975 Interior Ministry directive formally authorizing nationwide crackdowns on vagrants.

2025-11-13

Retrial of ex-President Park Chung-hee's assassin begins

The Seoul High Court on Wednesday began the retrial of former spy chief Kim Jae-gyu, who was sentenced to death for assassinating former President Park Chung Hee in 1979 and executed the following year.

2025-07-16

이재명, 박정희 전 대통령에 이례적 찬사…왜?

Judging by his economic rhetoric and campaign pledges alone, it might be hard to tell the political affiliation of Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party (DP) front-runner. Lee openly credited former President Park Chung Hee for his role in advancing...

2025-05-28

Court orders retrial of ex-spy chief who assassinated Park Chung Hee in 1979

The Seoul High Court said Wednesday that it has decided to retry the case of former spy chief Kim Jae-gyu, who was convicted in 1979 for assassinating then-President Park Chung Hee.

2025-02-19

Regrets about the Nobel Prize in Economics

Has any developing country achieved such an economic miracle through Western-style democracy in the 20th century?

2024-11-07

Let the national pension stay afloat

We have a duty to pass on the legacy to the future generation.

2024-08-28

How the first lady should act

There have been many first ladies since, but none who could match her.

2024-01-02

Where are the straight talkers to the president?

To overcome chaos today, the president must have critical voices at his side.

2023-11-19

Yoon, ex-President Park meet for first time since inauguration as poll numbers slip

Two conservative holders of Korea's top office — Yoon Suk Yeol and Park Geun-hye — met for the first time in more than a year since Yoon’s inauguration as the incumbent president’s poll numbers dwindle ahead of next year’s parliamentary election.

2023-10-26