On 15 August 1974, Park was delivering a speech in the National Theater in Seoul at the ceremony to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the ending of colonial rule when a man named Mun Se-gwang fired a gun at Park from the front row. The would-be assassin, who was a Japanese-born North Korean sympathizer, missed Park but a stray bullet struck his wife Yuk Young-soo (who died later in the day) and others on the stage.[12] Park continued his speech as his dying wife was carried off the stage.[13] Mun was hanged in Seoul prison four months later. On the first anniversary of his wife’s death, Park wrote in his diary “I felt as though I had lost everything in the world. All things became a burden and I lost my courage and will. A year has passed since then. And during that year I have cried alone in secret too many times to count.”
ROK president, Park Geun-hye mother was killed by NORK sympathizer.