Far-right politics in South Korea

Park Chung-hee (Korean: 박정희, 14 November 1917 – 26 October 1979) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as President of South Korea from 1961 until his assassination in 1979; ruling as an unelected military strongman from 1961 to 1963, then as the third President of South Korea from 1963 to 1979.

Chun Doo-hwan (Korean: 전두환; Hanja: 全斗煥; or 6 March 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.

Roh Tae-woo (Korean: 노태우; Hanja: 盧泰愚; born 4 December 1932 – 26 October 2021) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. He was a leader of the Democratic Justice Party and is known for passing the June 29 Declaration in 1987.

Yoon Seok-youl (Korean: 윤석열; Hanja: 尹錫悅; RR: Yun Seok-yeol, born on February 3, 1961) is a lawyer and a former Prosecutor General of South Korea.

Syngman Rhee (Korean: 이승만, 26 March 1875 – 19 July 1965) was a South Korean politician and leader who was the founder and served as the first President of South Korea, from 1948 to 1960. Rhee was also the first and last president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea from 1919 to his impeachment in 1925 and from 1947 to 1948. As President of South Korea, Rhee's government was characterised by authoritarianism, limited economic development, and in the late 1950s growing political instability and public opposition. Authoritarism continued to rule South Korea after Rhee's resignation until 1988, except a few short breaks.

Lee Beom-seok (1900–1972) was a Korean independence activist and the first Prime Minister of South Korea from 1948 to 1950. He also headed the Korean National Youth Association (조선민족청년단, 朝鮮民族靑年團). His nickname was Chulgi.

Kim Jong-pil (Korean: 김종필; Hanja: 金鍾泌; January 7, 1926 – June 23, 2018), also known colloquially as JP, was a South Korean politician and the founder/first director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA, now the National Intelligence Service). He served as Prime Minister twice, from 1971 to 1975 during the presidency of Park Chung-hee (1961–1979) and from 1998 to 2000 during the presidency of Kim Dae-jung (1998–2003). He was a nine term National Assembly member.

The Korean National Youth Association (Korean: 조선민족청년단; Hanja: 朝鮮民族靑年團) abbreviated as Jokcheong (Korean: 족청; Hanja: 族靑; lit. National Youth) was an anti-communist, right-wing group founded on October 9, 1946 under the catchphrase 'national branch, national geography', and led by Lee Beom-seok.

Jeon Kwang-hoon or Jun Gwang-hoon (Korean: 전광훈; Hanja: 全光焄: , born 28 March 1956) is a South Korean pastor and politician. He is the incumbent President of the Christian Council of Korea. He was also the former President of the now-defunct Party of Practice of Christian Love, as well as one of key figures to found the Christian Liberal Party. He is head pastor at Sarang Jeil Church [ko] in Seoul, South Korea, and is known for his conservative political activism against the Moon administration.

The Bodo League massacre (Korean: 보도연맹 학살; Hanja: 保導聯盟虐殺) was a massacre against communists and alleged communist-sympathizers (many of whom were civilians who had no connection to communism or communists) that occurred in the summer of 1950 during the Korean War. Estimates of the death toll vary. Historians and experts on the Korean War estimate that between 60,000 and 200,000 people were killed.