Students from Pusan National University began demonstrations calling for an end to Park's dictatorship.

[2] President Park Chung Hee declared martial law on 18 October and referred 66 people to military court.

Six days later, Park was assassinated by his own intelligence chief Kim Jae-gyu, leading to the Seoul Spring and seizure of power by general Chun Doo-hwan the following year.

In August 1979, female workers of the YH Trading Company (YH무역주식회사) performed a sit in at the headquarters of the New Democratic Party.

The protests history is as follows:[5] This incident incited conflict inside the government, which led in turn to an early ending of the Yushin regime that was maintained by an emergency measure.