Ex-Dictator’s Daughter Nominated for South Korean Presidency
Source: NY Times
A former dictator’s daughter who cited Queen Elizabeth I of Britain as her role model became the first serious female contender for South Korea’s presidency on Monday when she was chosen as the governing party’s candidate for the election in December.
Park Geun-hye, a daughter of President Park Chung-hee, who ruled South Korea from 1961 until his assassination in 1979, is the first woman and the first child of a former president to become the presidential candidate of a major political party in South Korea.
Ms. Park, 60, won the nomination of the Saenuri Party by a huge margin, gathering 84 percent of the votes during a party convention. The remaining ballots were split among four other rivals.
“I will open an era of grand national unity,” she said in a speech after winning the race, identifying a divide between regions, generations and the rich and poor as a main challenge for the next president.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/asia/park-geun-hye-nominated-for-south-korean-presidency.html
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Still lots of older people who vote especially those who were around in the era her father was president (dictator). I think that was 1963 to 1979. Suji is the Chief Resident Korean historian.
I am not eligible to vote as a foreigner for president unless I go through the naturalization process, but in a year or so I will be eligible to vote in other elections.
My wife's father will vote for her, but I'm going to talk his head off between now and the election and try to convince him not to. Just now as I was typing this I was talking to my wife and she thinks Koreans are too conservative to elect a woman. I told her I think she is wrong and it doesn't matter because of who her father is. I bet her $500 that Park will be elected. She just ignored me. That's how interested in politics she is. 
