Ahn Doo-hee

However, shortly afterwards his sentence was commuted to a term of 15 years by then newly elected South Korean president Syngman Rhee.

After Syngman Rhee fled Korea in response to the April Revolution of 1960, Ahn went into hiding, living under an assumed name.

[5] After many years of living as an exile in his native country, and having never served the remainder of his prison sentence, Ahn was assassinated by Park Gi-seo, a 49-year-old bus driver and admirer of Kim Koo, on 23 October 1996.

Park Gi-seo was sentenced to three years in prison for murder, on the grounds that "the motive for the crime was public anger."

[7] In 2001, declassified United States military documents dating from 1949 revealed that Ahn had been an informant and, later, an agent, for the U.S. Counter-Intelligence Corps (US CIC) in Korea.