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Cheong Wa Dae (Korean: 청와대; Hanja: 靑瓦臺; lit. 'Cyan-tile Pavilion'), also known as the Blue House in English, is a public park that formerly served as the presidential residence and the diplomatic reception halls of South Korea from 1948 to 2022.
The Blue House raid, also known in South Korea as the 21 January Incident (Korean: 1·21 사태), was a raid launched by North Korean commandos in an attempt to assassinate President of South Korea Park Chung Hee in his residence at the Blue House in Seoul, on 21 January, 1968.
Park Chung Hee, the third president of South Korea, was assassinated on October 26, 1979 during a dinner at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) safe house near the Blue House presidential compound in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea.
Unit 124 was the only tier one special forces unit of the Korean People's Army Special Operations Forces (KPASOF) created specifically to assassinate Park Chung Hee in an operation to enter secretly across the Demilitarized Zone and kill him at his presidential residence, the Blue House, in Seoul to trigger political
Unit 124 was established from thirty-one handpicked officers of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the army of North Korea, specifically to infiltrate South Korea across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and assassinate Park Chung Hee, the President of South Korea, in his official residence at the Blue House in Seoul.
The Blue House used the Yoo Byung-eun investigation and arrest operation as a trump card to deflect the government's responsibility for the Sewol Ferry disaster and to shift the blame onto the shipowner. The National Intelligence Service and the Defense Security Command actively supported the Blue House provisions in this matter. [125]
Seoul 186 Blue House raid: 1968, January 17 - 29 Blue House, Seoul 59 Failed assassination attempt of Park Chung Hee by Unit 124: Wonju shooting 1969, June 5
Kim Shin-jo (Korean: 김신조; Hanja: 金新朝; born June 2, 1942) is one of two survivors of the 31-man team of North Korean commandos, known as Unit 124, sent to assassinate the then-president of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, in the Blue House raid in January 1968.