A prime minister and a mysterious shooting - Korea JoongAng Daily
The person who served in high-ranking positions for the longest period of President Park Chung Hee’s 18 years as president was probably Chung Il-kwon (1917-1994). When the May 16 revolution took place in 1961, Chung was ambassador to the United... He then served as foreign minister from 1963 to 1964, prime minister from 1964 to 1970, deputy chairman of the Democratic Republican Party (DRP) in 1972 and speaker of the National Assembly from 1973 to 1979. President Park must have seen... Park often appointed people to bring skills that he thought were lacking otherwise. While many of Park’s go-to guys were talented - such as Kim Hyeong-wuk, a person with drive, and Lee Hu-rak, who was good at planning - Chung didn’t have any noticeably unique traits. He was pretty obsessed with high-ranking positions, but he wasn’t greedy enough to be monitored by President Park’s guards. Other aides of Park didn’t pay much attention to Chung. Though he served the longest period among high-ranking officials under Park, he had a blank in his career, which was the eight months from when he stepped down as ambassador to the United States in April 1963 to when he was appointed foreign... I asked him about what he was going to do. As if he had been waiting for me to ask, he said, “Can you ask Park to give me a job in Korea. Source: koreajoongangdaily.joins.com
