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Park Chung-hee — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1917–1979 · South Korea · President

Park Chung-hee

Developmental dictatorship

Forced growth under an iron hand.

Economic+90
SocialistMarket
Governance+92
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−58
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The general-president whose authoritarian rule drove South Korea's export-led economic miracle — growth purchased with severe political repression.

social

Nationalist-traditionalist discipline.

economic

State-guided, export-driven capitalist 'miracle'.

governance

Military coup and authoritarian rule via the Yushin constitution.

Notable for
  • Drove the 'Miracle on the Han'
  • Yushin authoritarian constitution
  • Export-led industrialisation
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