The most interesting aspect of yesterday’s discussion at the Korea Society in New York concerned Park Chung Hee, the transformative autocrat who ruled from Seoul for most of the 1960s and 1970s. He was an army general who seized power in 1961 and maneuvered, sometimes brutally, to maintain it until he was assassinated in 1979.Continue reading “Dictator, Not Democracy, Initiated Korean Miracle”
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Tim W. Ferguson 