[1] The result was a victory for incumbent president Park Chung-hee, who received 53% of the vote.

[2] Within a year of his re-election, Park declared martial law and introduced the Yushin Constitution, which vested him with sweeping and near-dictatorial powers.

The DRP Convention was held on 17 March 1971, at which incumbent president Park Chung-hee became the presidential nominee.

However, shortly after his re-election in 1967, the DRP-dominated legislature passed a constitutional amendment allowing the incumbent president to run for three consecutive terms.

However, the norm was broken by lawmaker Kim Young-sam, who was only in his early forties, when he declared his bid for the New Democratic nomination for president on 8 November 1969.