"A year ago on this day around 9:45 a.m. you came downstairs dressed in an orange Korean dress and we left together for the ceremonies. You were leaving the Blue House for the last time in your life. This day a year ago was the longest of my life, the most painful and sad. My mind went blank with grief and despair. I felt as though I had lost everything in the world. All things became a burden and I lost my courage and will. A year has passed since then. And during that year I have cried alone in secret too many times to count."
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Diary entry (15 August 1975), as quoted in The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History Revised and Updated (2001), by Don Oberdorfer, p. 56.
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Park Chung-hee
Park Chung-hee (Korean: 박정희; 14 November 1917 – 26 October 1979) was president of South Korea during the 1960s and 1970s, after forcibly taking charge of the country through a coup. He was assassinated in 1979.
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