Kim Jaegyu

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Kim Jaegyu
Hangul 김재규 Hanja 金載圭 Revised Romanization Kim Jae-gyu McCune-Reischauer Kim Chae-gyu

Kim Jaegyu (March 6, 1926 – May 24, 1980) was a retired ROK Army Lieutenant General and intelligence officer.

He was most famous for, while Director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, assassinating South Korean President Park Chung Hee, who had been one of his closest friends for a long time, on October 26, 1979. He was subsequently executed by hanging on May 24, 1980.

[edit] See also

• List of Korea-related topics
• History of South Korea
• The President's Last Bang
• Assassination

[edit] References

• Assassination in Seoul. TIME Magazine (1979-11-05). Retrieved on 2007-11-18.
• Korea Times Panel Begins Inquiry Into Assassination of Ex-President Yoon Won-sup 08-09-2004^{[dead link]}