Thursday, 20 December 2012

South Korea gets First Female President


The daughter of a former military ruler, 60-year-old conservative, Park Geun-hye won South Korea’s presidential election on Wednesday and will become the country’s first female leader.
She will return to the presidential palace in Seoul where she served as her father’s first lady in the 1970s, after her mother was assassinated by a North Korean-backed gunman.
With more than 88 per cent of the votes counted, Park led with 51.6 per cent to 48 per cent to beat her opponenthuman rights lawyer Moon Jae-in.

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