South Korea’s new president, Park Geun-hye, publicly apologised on Monday for a political deadlock blocking the formation of her government at a time of heightened nuclear tension with North Korea...
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- Mar 4, 2013
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Park Geun-Hye
Park Geun-hye is the daughter of South Korea's former dictator, the late president Park Chung-hee. On December 19, 2012, Park - a Conservative - narrowly won the election to make history as South Korea's first female president. Born on February 2, 1952, she was the chairwoman of the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) between 2004 and 2006 and between 2011 and 2012 (the GNP changed its name to Saenuri Party in February 2012). Park has already served as South Korea's first lady, after her mother was killed in the 1970s.
3 Mar 2013
Park Geun-hye has committed to shifting the "paradigm of administering state affairs" and placing the happiness of the people on top of her agenda.
3 Mar 2013
South Korea's recently-inaugurated president, Park Geun-hye, has perhaps the most unenviable job of all Northeast Asia's new leaders. A host of challenges await her attention, the biggest being an...
2 Mar 2013
I will be there to support her spiritually, as well as physically
Henry Tang Ying-yen on his wife's upcoming court appearance over an unauthorised basement at the family home
1 Mar 2013
Her national speech on Friday came four days after her inauguration as the country’s first female president. She already faces unusually low popularity ratings. Parliament is gridlocked over...
The life of Park Geun-hye, South Korea's just-inaugurated first woman president, has so far been bookended by two larger-than-life men of debatable success. The first is her father, Park Chung-hee...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a live-fire artillery drill aimed at simulating an “actual war”, state media said on Tuesday, a day after South Korea swore in its first female president....
South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, has urged North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions, and to stop wasting its scarce resources on arms - less than two weeks after the North carried...
Following a jaunty ceremony featuring a 21-gun salute, folk dancers and Gangnam Style star Psy, Park Geun-hye, who was sworn in on Friday as president of South Korea, made a revolutionary promise...
Taking the oath of office in front of 70,000 people gathered in front of the National Assembly building in Seoul, Park Geun-hye called on North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions and rejoin...
Park Geun-hye is officially headed to the Blue House as the country's first female president. Park, the daughter of a former strongman, has already faced a test over Pyongyang's recent nuclear...
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