Presidential elections were held on 6 December 1979 following the assassination of Park Chung Hee on 26 October. The electoral college elected in May 1978, the National Council for Reunification, was reconvened and voted by a margin of 2,465 to 84 to confirm former Prime MinisterChoi Kyu-hah as the President of the Republic of Korea unopposed; Choi had been acting President since Park's death. 84 votes were declared invalid; a further 11 delegates were not present.[1] While Choi Kyu-hah remained president for eight months, his effective tenure would last for less than a week until Chun Doo-hwan seized power six days later in the coup d'état of December Twelfth.
