She married Han Byeong-gi [ko], who worked as a diplomat abroad for many years.

[2] Her mother, as was typical for Korean women at the time, had moved into her husband's household.

When she turned fourteen, she left her mother in Daegu and moved back to Gumi.

There, she moved between the Park family home and her cousin's house a number of times.

[2] She reportedly sent a number of angry and resentful letters to her father, which he once responded to by telling her to work hard to overcome her problems in life.

[2] She learned in 1952 that her father had just had a new child, Park Geun-hye, with a new wife, Yuk Young-soo.

One day, Yuk made a surprise visit to Park's house in Seoul.

Yuk invited her to come live with them, which Park accepted, because she professed to longing to be in a family.

[3][4] During her freshman year in 1958, motivated by a desire to leave the Park household and be independent,[2] she married Han Byeong-gi [ko], a politician and one of her father's allies, whom she would have two sons with.

[2] Coincidentally, her father and mother had overlapped in Busan for some time, as he had worked as a commander of a military base within eyesight of the temple.

[2] She never ended up living in the South Korean presidential residence, the Blue House.

For over half of her father's time in office, she was overseas with her husband, in the United States, Chile, and Canada.

[3] Notably, her half-sister President Park Geun-hye was reportedly not expected to attend the funeral, as she was then on trial for corruption charges.

Furthermore, Park Geun-hye did not make any public indications that she would leave prison to attend the funeral upon hearing the news.