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Events on Wednesday 19 December 2012 1
2012Park Geun-hye elected President of South KoreaFirst woman elected to lead the countryPark Geun-hye, daughter of former president Park Chung-hee, won South Korea's presidential election to become the country's first female head of state. She was later impeached and removed from office in 2017.