Park Ji-man (Korean: 박지만, born December 15, 1958) is the son (third child) of President Park Chung Hee and a professional business executive who is currently the chairman of the EG. After graduating from the 37th class of the Korea Military Academy, he served in the military for five years as an air defense instructor, one of the artillery officer branches, and retired as an army captain in 1986. Afterwards, he was indicted six times for drug use and convicted five times, causing great social controversy.
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Early life
He was born in Sindang-dong, Seoul, as the only son and youngest child of Major General Park Chung Hee, the Chief of Staff of the 1st Army Command, and his wife Yuk Young- soo. He is an only son with three older sisters, one a half-sister. The eldest sister, Park Jae-ok, is not Yuk Young-soo's daughter, but the daughter of his ex-wife, Kim Ho-nam. His second older sister is Park Geun-hye, and his third older sister is Park Geun-ryeong. He attended Seoul Cheongun Elementary School and Baemun Middle School before entering Joongang High School. In 1974, when he was 16 and a freshman in high school, his mother Yuk Young-soo was assassinated by Moon Se-gwang at the National Theater of Korea in Jangchung-dong, where a National Liberation Day of Korea ceremony was being held. It is said that this incident caused a very difficult time for Park Ji-man.