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Kim Jae-gyu

Director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency who shot President Park Chung-hee on 26 October 1979; executed in 1980

A former army general, he served as a National Assembly member and Minister of Construction, and became director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1976. He clashed with presidential security chief Cha Ji-chul over how to handle the Busan–Masan Democratic Protests. In the October 26 Incident he shot Park Chung-hee and Cha at a safe house in Gungjeong-dong, Seoul, and he was executed in May 1980.

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    1979October 26 Incidentleader

    KCIA director Kim Jae-gyu shot and killed President Park Chung-hee, bringing down the Yushin system.

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  • Film: The Man Standing NextDramatizedFilm · 2020 · Woo Min-ho
  • Documentary: Now It Can Be Told Episode 78: October 1979 — Why Did Kim Jae-gyu Shoot?Documentary · 2004 · Jang Hyeong-won · MBC

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  • Park Chung-hee1917 – 1979

    5th–9th President (1963–1979). Led the May 16 coup, the five-year economic plans and the Yushin system; killed in the October 26 incident

  • Choi Kyu-hah1919 – 2006

    10th President (1979–1980). Acting president after 26 October 1979, then elected by the National Conference for Unification; resigned in August 1980