USS Everett F. Larson, a 2425-ton Gearing class destroyer, was built at Bath, Maine, during the final year of World War II. Commissioned in April 1945, she was almost immediately converted for radar picket service and went to the Pacific at the beginning of August, a few weeks before Japan's capitulation ended the war. Everett F. Larson arrived in the western Pacific in late September and spent some fifteen months in Asiatic waters. Returning to the United States in December 1946, the destroyer was soon transferred to the Atlantic. She was redesignated DDR-830 in March 1949, made seven deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and was active in other Atlantic Fleet operations.

In June 1956 Everett F. Larson went back to the Pacific, her assignment for the remainder of her active career. She made four Far Eastern tours between March 1957 and March 1961. During the last half of 1962 she was modernized as part of the FRAM ("Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization") II program, which replaced her distinctive radar picket features with a largely new superstructure containing a small hangar for "DASH" drone helicopters. Other antisubmarine weapons were also installed, and the ship was redesignated DD-830 shortly before the shipyard work was completed.

From 1963 until the end of the decade, Everett F. Larson went to the western Pacific on an annual basis, regularly using her five-inch guns for bombardment purposes during Vietnam War operations from 1965 on. She also served as a plane guard for aircraft carriers during the conflict, was in the Sea of Japan for several weeks after North Korea captured the intelligence ship Pueblo in January 1968, and took part in a variety of exercises involving ships of the U.S. and allied navies. While so engaged in early June 1969, Everett F. Larson came to the assistance of the destroyer Frank E. Evans after that ship was cut in two in a tragic collision with the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne.

In 1971 and 1972 Everett F. Larson had two final Seventh Fleet tours, serving off Vietnam during both. She came home in July 1972 and was prepared for transfer abroad. USS Everett F. Larson decommissioned at the end of October 1972 and was turned over to the Republic of Korea Navy, initially on loan and later by sale. Renamed JEONG BUK, she had nearly three decades of Korean service before being discarded in 2000 to become a museum and memorial in South Korea.