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Challenges waiting for president-elect
President-elect Park Geun-hye faces tough challenges in the push for sweeping political and economic reforms amid a slowing economy and deepening partisan divide. Her pledge to engage North Korea also faces hurdles as the belligerent neighbor shows no signs of easing tension following its recent rocket launch. The 18th presidential election heightened Koreans’ expectations for a fix to confrontational politics, the chaebol-dominated economy and a fragile social security system. “The presidential
Dec. 20, 2012
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Conservatives sweep major by-elections
Conservatives won a landslide victory in two by-elections held in Seoul and South Gyeongsang Province on Wednesday.Former Education Minister Moon Yong-lin became the new superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, defeating left-leaning Lee Soo-ho, the former chief of the Korea Teachers and Education Workers’ Union.Moon, 65, emeritus professor at Seoul National University, had captured 53 percent of the votes followed by his liberal rival Lee with 37 percent as of midnight, acc
Dec. 20, 2012
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Obama in hurry for consultations with Park on N. Korea: experts
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to hasten consultations with South Korea's incoming leader, Park Geun-hye, on a variety of important issues, including North Korea and alliance issues, experts here said Wednesday.The U.S. government has not issued any formal response to Park's victory in Wednesday's tight South Korean presidential election. She is the first woman president in South Korean history.The White House is expected to release a congratulatory message later in the day, followed by
Dec. 20, 2012
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Park’s enigmatic leadership leads to victory
Validating her perseverance through years of solitude and integrity demonstrated throughout her 15-year political career, Park Geun-hye won her presidency on the platform of unity.Park, strong enough to save her party from multiple crises, overcame her chronic drawback of being the daughter of late President Park Chung-hee as the public chose over change.Her win shows that while the public is aware of her rather old-fashioned decision-making manner, it would still prefer her to lead them through
Dec. 20, 2012
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Tight two-way race leads to highest turnout in 15 years
Voter turnout for the 18th presidential election exceeded 75 percent Wednesday as the neck-and-neck race pushed people to the polling stations to tip the scales in favor of their preferred candidate, despite freezing weather.The participation rate was tentatively tallied at 75.8 percent, up from 63 percent in the 2007 presidential election. Voter participation had been on constant decline since 1987 when the direct presidential election system was reinstated after a pro-democracy uprising that y
Dec. 20, 2012
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Lee congratulates Park on victory
President Lee Myung-bak congratulated ruling party presidential candidate Park Geun-hye on her certain victory in the tightly contested South Korean election Wednesday, his office said."Congratulations on your victory. You went through a lot of trouble," presidential spokesman Park Jung-ha quoted Lee as saying in a two-minute phone conversation with the candidate.Lee called the 60-year-old candidate of the conservative Saenuri Party at around 9:40 p.m. as the official vote count showed Park woul
Dec. 20, 2012
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Dictator father looms over S. Korea's new president
When Park Geun-hye last lived in the presidential Blue House more than 30 years ago, she was a young, stand-in first lady, serving after the assassination of her mother and before the killing of her dictator father.After defeating Moon Jae-in in elections Wednesday, she will return to her childhood home as the first female president of a country where women continue to face widespread sexism, huge income gaps with men doing the same work and few opportunities to rise to the top in business, poli
Dec. 20, 2012
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Park Geun-hye a woman of principle and trust
Park Geun-hye, the eldest daughter of the late former president, Park Chung-hee, will return to Cheong Wa Dae 33 years after she left the presidential office, this time as South Korea's first woman president. Park, who turns 61 in February, fought long and hard for her victory following her defeat to outgoing President Lee Myung-bak in a party primary ahead of the 2007 presidential election and an unexpected challenge from her liberal rivals in the last months of the race. Her reputation
Dec. 20, 2012
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Chronology of South Korea's 2012 presidential election
Chronology of South Korea's 2012 presidential electionThe following is a chronology of major events leading up to South Korea's presidential election Wednesday.-- June 17: Moon Jae-in, the 59-year-old former chief of staff to late President Roh Moo-hyun, officially announces his bid for president, challenging long-time presidential hopeful Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party.-- July 10: Park, the 60-year-old daughter of late authoritarian President Park Chung-hee, officially announces her
Dec. 20, 2012
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Dramatic life topped by election win
It was as if her life was made for her to become president. Or that is what Park Geun-hye seemingly believed as she spent 15 years in male-dominated politics until finally becoming the first president with an ex-president for a father on Dec. 19.Debate over her sheltered past ― interwoven with some extraordinary rumors and scandals ― was offset by her resolve to lead the country and vow to be the cleanest president, without a family to turn to or debts to repay.The divisive evaluations of her fa
Dec. 19, 2012
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Park’s family tree boasts strong business and political ties
Owning to her status as the daughter of former President Park Chung-hee, President-elect Park Geun-hye’s family tree boasts a number of influential figures in the business and political world. Park’s younger brother, Park Ji-man, sits as the president of EG Corp., a chemical manufacturing company whose recorded sales last year topped 84.6 billion won ($78.8 million). Park, 54, studied at the elite Korean Military Academy, but was arrested several times for drug use in the late ‘80s and ‘90s. Hi
Dec. 19, 2012
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What Park pledged to do as president
Peninsular trust-building processAt the core of Park’s policy toward North Korea is the Korean Peninsular Trust-Building Process, which is aimed at entrenching durable peace and laying the groundwork for reunification.The process is based on a flexible and balanced approach. It shuns a dichotomist attitude of taking either appeasement or a hard-line stance, which she says has been unhelpful in bringing positive change in the communist state.Under the process, Seoul is to resume dialogue with Py
Dec. 19, 2012
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Bigwigs on all fronts buttress Park’s rise to presidency
Stepping beyond factional barriers and political differences, bigwigs on all fronts gathered for the sole purpose of making Park Geun-hye the next president.Top on the roster of conservative politicians are former floor leader Kim Moo-sung and ex-party chairman Lee Hoi-chang, both of whom were deeply at odds with her in the past.Reform-minded experts like economist-turned-politician Kim Chong-in and former judge Ahn Dae-hee joined the campaign to pull Park’s policies toward to the center.Major
Dec. 19, 2012
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Voters defy chilly weather to be part of democracy
Freezing temperatures, negative tactics and voter disenchantment with the familiar left-right divide did little to deter Koreans voting in vast numbers in one of the closest presidential elections in history. Koreans, young and old, braved the frosty weather to make their ballot count, pushing the turnout much higher than in many previous elections. Before dawn, voters started to trickle into 13,542 polling stations across the country to elect the 18th president of Korea. Just 20 minutes after p
Dec. 19, 2012
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Tight race boosts voter turnout
Voter turnout for the 18th presidential election exceeded 70 percent on Wednesday as the dead-heat race pushed people to the polling stations to tip the scale in favor of candidates they support despite freezing weather.As of 7:30 p.m., voter turnout was 75.8 percent.Voter participation has been on constant decline since 1987 when the direct presidential election system was reinstated after a pro-democracy uprising that year. “(In this election) there was a single candidate from both liberal and
Dec. 19, 2012
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Former ruling party chief elected South Gyeongsang Province governor: exit poll
Hong Joon-pyo, the former chief of the conservative ruling party, made a comeback to the political scene by winning a by-election for the governor of South Gyeongsang Province, an exit poll showed Wednesday. Hong of the ruling Saenuri Party became the sure winner by garnering 60.9 percent, far exceeding Kwon Young-gil, a liberal-leaning candidate with no party affiliation, with 39.1 percent, according to the exit poll by the nation's three major broadcasters released shortly after the voting end
Dec. 19, 2012
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Ex-education minister elected Seoul education chief: exit poll
The former conservative-leaning education minister was elected Seoul city education superintendent in a by-election on Wednesday, an exit poll showed, filling the post vacated by his disgraced predecessor who was convicted of bribery. Moon Yong-lin garnered 52.6 percent of the vote followed by the left-leaning Lee Su-ho with 39.4 percent, according to an exit poll by the nation's three major broadcasters released shortly after the polls closed at 6 p.m.The gap far exceeds the poll's margin of er
Dec. 19, 2012
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Korea gets first female president
Conservative Park Geun-hye clinched a climactic election victory Wednesday to become South Korea’s first female president on the back of pledges for political reform and measured economic democratization. The 60-year-old candidate of the ruling Saenuri Party won the race by a larger margin than those predicted by the most recent opinion surveys and exit polls. She beat progressive rival Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party, who campaigned for more drastic reform in local conglomerates and
Dec. 19, 2012
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Huge crowds vote in S. Korean presidential election
Huge crowds turned out Wednesday to vote in a tight presidential race pitting the son of North Korean refugees against the conservative daughter of a late dictator who both favor greater engagement with rival North Korea.Despite bitter cold, turnout was higher than past elections, which political analysts said might provide a slight boost to liberal Moon Jae-in over conservative Park Geun-hye in their contest to lead Asia's fourth-largest economy at a time of high tension with rival North Korea.
Dec. 19, 2012
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S. Koreans vote to pick new president
South Koreans voted Wednesday to elect a new president, with the two contenders running a tight race to succeed outgoing conservative President Lee Myung-bak.The election will decide whether the nation, with more than 40 million eligible voters, will see the return of liberals after five years of Lee's conservative government or hand power to a woman president for the first time.The two candidates are the ruling Saenuri Party's Park Geun-hye, 60, daughter of former President Gen. Park Chung-nee,
Dec. 19, 2012