Explore popular quotes and sayings by a South Korean politician Park Chung-hee.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Park Chung-hee was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the leader of South Korea from 1961 until his assassination in 1979; ruling as an unelected military strongman from 1961 to 1963, then as the third President of South Korea from 1963 to 1979.
Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
I have repeatedly emphasized that the Communists in North Korea appear to have set 1975 as the year of aggression against the South.
We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.