Park Geun-hye

President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017

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South Korea's first female president, Park Geun-hye served from 2013 until her removal in 2017. The daughter of a former autocratic leader, she worked as acting first lady before her own political rise in East Asia's male-dominated corridors.

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Park Geun-hye is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until her removal from office in 2017. A member of then Saenuri Party and the eldest daughter of the third president, Park Chung Hee, she was the first woman in the country and the first in East Asia to be elected as head of state. Park previously served as the acting first lady of South Korea under her father's presidency from 1974 until her father's assassination in 1979.

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