Korea's first lady was shot dead on live TV. Movie probes the case
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Quick summary- 1South Korea's modern history has seen no shortage of coups, conspiracies, assassinations and acts of terrorism playing out within the global tensions of the Co…
- 2Even so, having the first lady shot dead on live television is quite something.
- 315, 1974, at
South Korea's modern history has seen no shortage of coups, conspiracies, assassinations and acts of terrorism playing out within the global tensions of the Cold War. Even so, having the first lady shot dead on live television is quite something. It happened on Aug. 15, 1974, at a Liberation Day ceremony in Seoul when Moon Se-gwang, a 22-year-old Korean resident of Japan, charged the stage firing at strongman President Park Chung-hee mid-speech. The president managed to take cover, but his wife,
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