Park Jae-ok

Park Jae-ok (Korean: 박재옥; November 24, 1937 – July 8, 2020) was the first child of South Korean president Park Chung Hee and his first wife, Kim Ho-nam.

Park had a strained relationship with her father. Her father had been both absent and distant to her and her mother, and eventually surprised them both with a divorce request in 1950. She and her mother were made to leave the household, and Park Chung Hee left her mother when Park Jae-ok was 14 years and moved between places. Her father later made an attempt to repair the relationship, but the two did not get along even until his death. Her mother married a different man, and spent much of the rest of her life in a Buddhist temple.

Unlike her half-siblings, especially President Park Geun-hye, Park Jae-ok was rarely in the public spotlight in South Korea. She married Han Byeong-gi, who worked as a diplomat abroad for many years. Her father was assassinated in 1979. She later expressed regret that she did not accept her father's apologies during his lifetime.