Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.

Park Geun-hye

President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017

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. Park was the first and to date only woman to be elected president of South Korea, and also the first woman to be popularly elected as a…

2012 South Korean presidential election

Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2012. They were the sixth presidential elections since democratization and the establishment of the Sixth Republic, and were held under a first-past-the-post system, in which there was a single round of voting and…

President of South Korea

Head of state and government of South Korea

The president of the Republic of Korea, also known as the president of South Korea, is the head of state and head of government of South Korea. The president directs the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.