Birthplace of Park Chung Hee
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For Park's later house in Seoul, see Park Chung-hee's House in Sindang-dong, Seoul.
An exhibit of the birthplace and childhood home of President Park Chung Hee (Korean: 박정희 대통령 생가) is currently located in Sangmo-dong [ko], Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Park was the 1963–1979 President of South Korea. The home was registered as Cultural Heritage No. 86 of North Gyeongsang on February 25, 1993.[2][1]
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Birthplace of Park Chung Hee | |
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General information | |
Address | 107 Parkchunghee-ro, Gumi, North Gyeongsang, South Korea |
Coordinates | 36.088333°N 128.349167°E / 36.088333; 128.349167 |
Completed | 1900 or 1916 |
Renovated | 1964 |
Technical details | |
Floor area | 2,672 square metres (28,760 sq ft)[1] |
Website | |
presidentparkchunghee.or.kr (in Korean) | |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 박정희 대통령 생가 |
Hanja | 朴正熙 大統領 生家 |
Revised Romanization | Bakjeonghui daetongnyeong saengga |
McCune–Reischauer | Pakchŏnghŭi taet'ongnyŏng saengga |
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The exhibit consists of a number of buildings, including an anchae, a sarangchae, and a memorial hall to Park and his wife. The anbang is undisputedly not original; it was destroyed and made into a modern brick building in 1964. The sarangchae, however, is widely described as being original, although the historian Chong-Sik Lee felt that it was restored in an inauthentic manner.