Kim Jae-gyu's Fatal Decision

Kim Jae-gyu

Born in Seonsan-eup, Kim Jae-gyu served as a Lieutenant General, Minister of Construction, and KCIA Director. On October 26, 1979, amid growing political repression and internal administration conflicts, he shot President Park Chung-hee, bringing an abrupt end to the 18-year Yushin regime.

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Year	Kim Jae-gyu
1926	Birth of Kim Jae-gyu (Period: April 9, 1924 (Listed as March 6, 1926, in the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, showing discrepancies among sources regarding his birth date), Location: Seonsan-eup, Gumi-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea) Birth and Early Life (Kim Jae-gyu, Period: April 9, 1924 (March 6, 1926 according to other sources), Location: Seonsan-eup, Seonsan-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do under Japanese rule (Present-day Seonsan-eup, Gumi-si, Korea))
1930	Enrollment in and Graduation from Andong Agricultural High School (Kim Jae-gyu, Age: 3 years old, Period: Late 1930s – 1943, Location: Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Joseon)
1939	World War II (Age: 12 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Iran)
1943	Aviation Training in the Imperial Japanese Military (Age: 16 years old, Period: 1943–1945, Location: Military training facilities in Korea under Japanese rule and Japan)
1945	Service as a Teacher (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1945–1946, Location: Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea) Marriage (Kim Jae-gyu and Kim Young-hee, Age: 18 years old, Period: Before 1945 or 1940s (exact date unknown), Location: Unknown)
1946	Enrollment in and Graduation from the South Korean Defense Academy (Kim Jae-gyu, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1946, Location: Seoul, Korea) Promotion as an Army Officer (Kim Jae-gyu, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1946–1973, Location: Various regions in Korea)
1950	Korean War (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1950–1953, Location: Korean Peninsula)
1961	Corporate Management Following the May 16 Military Coup (Age: 34 years old, Period: 1961–1963, Location: Hanam region, Korea) May 16 Military Coup (Age: 35 years old, Period: May 16, 1961, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1964	Protests Against the Normalization of South Korea–Japan Relations (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1964–1965, Location: Seoul, Korea, etc.)
1970	Opposition to the Yushin System and Deterioration of Relations with Park Chung-hee (Age: 43 years old, Period: Late 1970s – 1979, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1972	Enactment of the Yushin Constitution and Establishment of the Yushin System (Age: 46 years old, Period: October–December 1972, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1973	Assumption of Office as a Member of the National Assembly (Kim Jae-gyu, Age: 46 years old, Period: 1973–1974, Location: Seoul, Korea, National Assembly)
1974	Assumption of Office as Minister of Construction (Kim Jae-gyu, Age: 48 years old, Period: September 1974 – December 1976, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1976	Assumption of Office as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Kim Jae-gyu, Age: 50 years old, Period: December 1976 – October 1979, Location: Seoul, Korea, Central Intelligence Agency)
1979	Sit-in Protest by Female Workers of YH Trade (Age: 53 years old, Period: August 9–11, 1979, Location: Seoul, Korea, New Democratic Party Headquarters) Investigation by Chun Doo-hwan and the Rise of the New Military Faction (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 1979 – 1980, Location: Seoul, Korea) Incident of Stripping Kim Young-sam of His National Assembly Seat (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 4, 1979, Location: Seoul, Korea, National Assembly) Bu-Ma Democratic Protests (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 16–20, 1979, Location: Busan Metropolitan City, and Masan, Gyeongsangnam-do (Present-day Changwon), Republic of Korea) October 26 Incident (Assassination of President Park Chung-hee, Age: 53 years old, Period: October 26, 1979, Location: Safehouse of the Central Intelligence Agency in Gungpyeong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea) Execution of the October 26 Incident (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 26, 1979, Location: Gungpyeong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea) Arrest and Military Trial of Kim Jae-gyu (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 27, 1979 – May 1980, Location: Seoul, Korea)
1980	Death Sentence and Execution (Age: 53 years old, Period: January – May 24, 1980, Location: Seoul, Korea) Death of Kim Jae-gyu (Age: 54 years old, Period: May 24, 1980 (Executed by hanging at the Seoul Detention House in Seoul, South Korea)) Execution of Kim Jae-gyu (Age: 54 years old, Period: May 24, 1980, Location: Seoul Detention Center, Korea)

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Founding of the PRC	Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Liu Shaoqi Zhu De Chen Yun Jiang Qing Hua Guofeng Ye Jianying Wang Hongwen Zhang Chunqiao
Nation-building in Taiwan	Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Ching-kuo Chen Cheng Yen Chia-kan Lee Teng-hui Sun Li-jen Koo Chen-fu James Soong (Soong Chu-yu) Kang Ning-hsiang Shih Ming-teh
State-building in South Korea	Syngman Rhee Park Chung-hee Chun Doo-hwan Roh Tae-woo Kim Young-sam Kim Dae-jung Chang Myon Kim Jong-pil Lee Byung-chul Chung Ju-yung Kim Jae-gyu
Post-war Reconstruction of Japan	Shigeru Yoshida Ichiro Hatoyama Nobusuke Kishi Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Sato Kakuei Tanaka Takeo Fukuda Masayoshi Ohira Yasuhiro Nakasone Takeo Miki

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