Request Pics: Korea, May 61 Coup D'etat

[393Bird]

I am looking for pictures of Korea from May 61, when there was a Coup D'etat, and Gen. Park Chung Hee took over the government. Anyone have any?

[ourkids]

I found some pics are here:

http://blog.naver.com/tnvthrskfro?Redirect=Log&logNo=70006245277

http://www.everyoung.ne.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=60anni&page=8&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=subject&desc=asc&no=247

I'd like to help you those pics .

[daewon]

http://kr.img.dc.yahoo.com/b11/data/military/55/1119004682_1107694417_%BF%C0%C0%CF%B7%FA.jpg

The man with sunglasses on the left is Major General Park Chung Hee, who two years later became president and held on to the job for the following 17 years until he was shot by KCIA director Kim Jae Kyu(1979). On the right you see Cha Ji Chul, who would become the head of Presidential Security Service. In 1979 he was also shot by Director Kim and died with the President.



http://kr.img.dc.yahoo.com/b11/data/special_forces/516.jpg
a similar pic. You see prez. Park and Cha here also.


http://kr.img.dc.yahoo.com/b11/data/special_forces/04/1156068816_516.jpg
right after the coup, airborne units lead by Cha, did a little shake down on crimials and mobs, and made them walk through the streets of Seoul with such remarks as "I am trash" on their neck, in a show of force.

[Flagg]

South Korea's has had a seriously turbulent history in it's short existence.

One interesting thing to note is that the economy of North korea was considerably stonger than South Korea's at that time......It wasn't until under the firm control of Park Chung Hee that South Korea's "Asian Tiger" economy exploded.....so at the time......today's relative economic situation between the two Korea's was a bit reversed.

I heard a controversial movie was just made about Park Chung Hee, Kim Jae Kyu and Cha Ji Chul.

I'd be keen to see it, but I don't speak Korean.

[393Bird]

Thanks for the pictures. I was 18 then, in the US Army stationed in Korea. I was a truck, and had to drive through Seoul the day of the coup d'tat, when Gen. Park Chung Hee took over the Government. There were tanks every where, and all the major intersections had sand baged bunkers with machine guns. I was very scared then, since I was not sure if they were all from the South or North.

I ended up staying in the Army for 22 years, and being stationed in Korea 4 times, with the last in 1982. I am working on a web page about all of my assignments for my Grandson, and would like to add a few pictures of this time.

Thanks.....

[Flagg]

Thanks for the pictures. I was 18 then, in the US Army stationed in Korea. I was a truck, and had to drive through Seoul the day of the coup d'tat, when Gen. Park Chung Hee took over the Government. There were tanks every where, and all the major intersections had sand baged bunkers with machine guns. I was very scared then, since I was not sure if they were all from the South or North.

I ended up staying in the Army for 22 years, and being stationed in Korea 4 times, with the last in 1982. I am working on a web page about all of my assignments for my Grandson, and would like to add a few pictures of this time.

Thanks.....

Sounds very interesting

[daewon]

Thanks for the pictures. I was 18 then, in the US Army stationed in Korea. I was a truck, and had to drive through Seoul the day of the coup d'tat, when Gen. Park Chung Hee took over the Government. There were tanks every where, and all the major intersections had sand baged bunkers with machine guns. I was very scared then, since I was not sure if they were all from the South or North.

I ended up staying in the Army for 22 years, and being stationed in Korea 4 times, with the last in 1982. I am working on a web page about all of my assignments for my Grandson, and would like to add a few pictures of this time.

Thanks.....

Hey, glad to be of help.
Hope your time in Korea was enjoyable situation notwithstanding.
Just some more pics I could find. Pics of that era are kinda hard to come by.
Hope these can help give your Grandson an idea of how the times were back then.

http://koreanliterature.kaist.ac.kr/leesangkyung/picture/image/139.jpg
the then chairman of Supreme Nation Rebuilding Commitee Park Chung Hee
during a press conference after the coup

http://sgti.kehc.org/myhome/others/parkjunghee.jpg
also Park sometime after the coup

http://kr.img.dc.yahoo.com/b11/data/military/1089873307/q.jpg
After the coup, Korea was briefly under military rule and therefore all matters of justice were dealt by the military. This woman is being court-martialed for a petty crime. The baby just walked into the stand to hold the mother's hand. She was acquitted of all charges.

http://www.lawtimes.co.kr/images/E1DDF4CA61DF49959D9DCC9FC0B1B167.jpg
Even petty crimes were dealt with harshly by the military as a part of "purification" of the corrupt society.

[fmaster]

http://img.hankooki.com/news/hankook50/1960_1p.gif
one of the major Korean newspaper, Hankook Ilbo's evening edition of 16 May, 1961. Says about Coup of the military.

http://guno.pe.kr/html/06stamp/stapic/event/ev34.jpg
5.16 memorial stamp


geez there aren't many pics on web... maybe i can search some video clips to get more pics.

[393Bird]

Hey, glad to be of help.
Hope your time in Korea was enjoyable situation notwithstanding.
Just some more pics I could find. Pics of that era are kinda hard to come by.
Hope these can help give your Grandson an idea of how the times were back then.


Thank you very much. Being that I was in korea at the beginning of its rebirth after the war, on through its growing up, and seeing it prosper now, I guess Korea will always be part of me.

I was there 1960-61, 69-70, 78-79, and 81-82. Lots of memories, mostly good ones. I was near the DMZ on 3 of them.

For the youngers people that do not understand what the older Koreans went through following the war, here is a picture taken in 1961 in Seoul on the banks of the Han River.

http://www.qsl.net/wd4ngb/seoul-1961.jpg



This was taken in 1970 near the small village of Baekui-ri where I was in 1970, near the DMZ in the central area.

http://www.qsl.net/wd4ngb/kbus.jpg



This is the same road last year, a few miles from the above picture. This is highway 37 north east of Seoul about 30 miles.



http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3508/hantanbridge1bh3.jpg

When I was there the first time, the road north from Seoul was a narrow 2 lane black top road with narrow gravel edges. When I was there in 82, it was 6 lanes, plus a turning lane .

The time that Park Chung Hee was the President is controversial, but with the condition Korea was in then, to what it was in the late 70s, I think he was the right man for the time.

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