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...small man (5 ft. 4 in.), Park kept himself in military trim. He was a devout Buddhist, and reputed to be a moderate drinker who detested the Korean equivalent of geisha parties. Always austere and humorless, he grew even more introspective when his wife Yook Young Soo was killed during an assassination attempt on his own life in 1974. After the nine-day period of national mourning in South Korea, his body will probably be buried next to her grave, in Seoul's National Cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Very Tough Peasant | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...bodyguards returned the fire. A 16-year-old high school girl in the audience was killed in the Shootout. Another bullet struck the gunman in the leg; he was wrestled to the floor and carried out of the hall. A third bullet hit Park's charming wife Yook Young Soo, who was seated on the dais directly behind him. Park stoically returned to the lectern and resumed his speech even as his wife was being rushed to a hospital. Mrs. Park died there eight hours later with her husband at her bedside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: The Accidental Assassination | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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