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Park Young-sook, a pioneering women’s rights activist in Korea and former chairwoman of the Circle Foundation (formerly named the Ahn Cheol-soo Foundation), died of natural causes in Seoul, on Friday at the age of 81.
Born in Pyongyang in 1932, Park graduated from Ewha Womans University and worked as an activist with several women’s groups. She is considered to have left a mark on the nation’s movement for gender equality such as by heading a countermeasures alliance of women’s groups against a sexual torture case in 1986.
Born in Pyongyang in 1932, Park graduated from Ewha Womans University and worked as an activist with several women’s groups. She is considered to have left a mark on the nation’s movement for gender equality such as by heading a countermeasures alliance of women’s groups against a sexual torture case in 1986.
She entered politics in 1987 with the Peace and Democracy Party, created by late former President Kim Dae-jung and served as an acting chairwoman.
Park joined the Circle Foundation from February last year, leaving in March this year.
Throngs of mourners, including Ahn, paid their respects at a funeral hall in Severance Hospital in Seoul over the weekend.
(From news reports)
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