S. Korea's Women Backed Park for More Workplace Equality: Academic
Saturday, 22 December 2012 08:25
Liam Cochrane Radio Australia
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Download South Korea has elected its first female head of state.
Conservative leader Park Geun-hye comes with a painful political legacy.
Her father was president during the '60s and '70s.
Her mother was killed in an assassination attempt on the president in 1974 and the president himself, Park Chung Hee, was assassinated by the chief of the secret police in 1979.
Ms Park has won office promising to create more jobs and increase welfare spending while reviving South Korea's sluggish economy.
Liam Cochrane from Radio Australia speaks to Professor Lee Jung Hoon from Yonsei University about this.