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Park Geun-hye

18th President (2013–2017), removed from office by the Constitutional Court’s impeachment ruling in March 2017

The daughter of Park Chung-hee, she led the Grand National Party. Elected in 2012 as the Saenuri Party candidate, she became Korea's first woman president. During her term the Sewol ferry disaster occurred in 2014, she reached an agreement with Japan on the 'comfort women' issue in 2015, and in 2016 she shut down the Kaesong Industrial Complex in response to North Korean nuclear and missile tests. In 2016 an influence-peddling scandal came to light, mass candlelight rallies followed, and in December the National Assembly passed an impeachment motion. In March 2017 she became the first president removed from office by a Constitutional Court ruling. In January 2021 the Supreme Court upheld her prison sentence in the influence-peddling and related cases, and she received a special pardon that December.

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    2003 – 2016Kaesong Industrial Complexrelated figure

    After the June 15 Declaration, an industrial zone combining southern capital and technology with northern land and labour was built at Kaesong.

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  • Roh Moo-hyun1946 – 2009

    16th President (2003–2008). Held the second inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang in 2007 and issued the October 4 Declaration

Themes this person appears in

  • Changing Unification Policies1948 – 2018

    From “march north” to the Panmunjom Declaration — inter-Korean relations from confrontation to dialogue, through joint statements and agreements to summits (up to 2018)

  • GaeseongAD 901 – 2003

    From Wang Geon, lord of Songak, to the Kaesong Industrial Complex — Gaegyeong, Goryeo’s capital for five centuries, and home of the Song merchants