Seen at Sudoguksan (Water Works Hill) Museum of Housing and Living, just east of downtown Incheon. Water Works Hill hosted a shantytown, made up of displaced rural peasants and Northern refugees, which lasted through the industrialization years until being gentrified in 1996; there is a museum dedicated to life in the shantytown, a valuable resource to remember a bygone era.

One of the most significant developments in modern-day South Korea was the military coup d'etat of May 16th, 1961. South Korea's first democratic government, which had been founded only a year prior in the wake of a revolution, was overthrown overnight by the forces of General Park Chung-hee.

Shortly after the coup, the plotters put up these posters around the nation, with six planks of their coup, listed as follows:

1. Anticommunism is the national ideology. Instead of merely paying lip service, we shall reinforce and strengthen it. 2. We shall comply with the United Nations Charter and all relevant international treaties, and strengthen cooperation with free allies headed by the United States. 3. To eradicate corruption and old ways of thinking, we shall enact morality laws. 4. Our people are in despair and hungry. We shall concentrate on building a self-sufficient economic base to remedy that. 5. The people's greatest wish is the reunification of the land. We shall invest in the military to keep up with the Communists to the north. 6. When we have accomplished our goals, we shall cede power to a qualified successor regime and return to our duties.

Park would remain in power until being assassinated in 1979, with his level of totalitarian control increasing as time went on. Park's totalitarianism eventually got to a level where the US was reconsidering its alliance with South Korea. However, as he did launch risky industrialization plans that did succeed (partly because the capitalist superpowers did need a viable South Korea to prevent a communist unification), Park is beloved by South Korean right-wingers and virtually all Korean-Americans. The personality cult around Park is almost as strong and ridiculous as the personality cult around the Kim Dynasty north of the DMZ, or for that matter, the personality cult of Ronald Reagan among American conservatives; this is a huge contrast from Park's contemporary, ally, and fellow fascist dictator Chiang Kai-shek of Taiwan, who is universally reviled in today's democratic Taiwan.

Park's legacy lives on; Park's daughter, Park Geun-hye, became South Korea's 18th President (and the first woman President), serving from 2013 to 2018. The younger Park's draw indeed was the legacy of her father, and her promise to continue with South Korea's fascist restoration, which had been begun under Lee Myung-bak in 2008.