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The Political Empowerment of Women and Making of Female President in Korea: Park Geun-hye regime Critically Viewed by the Perspective of Christian Feminist Ethics

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2013, (26), pp.55-79
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

Lee Sookjin 1

1성공회대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Park Geun-hye, before the 18th president election of Korea, was a veteran politician who got various names such as “star politician,” “a queen of election,” “the only one candidate for President.” Female elites seeking for feminist politics were not assured that she could be a stepping stone or an obstacle for the political empowerment of women in Korea. Park Geun-hye has two images, “a daughter of Park Jung-hee, the late former President” and “a supporter of Yushin regime as dictatorship.” While the first helped her entering politics in the general election of 1998, the second seemed to become a leg iron for her presidential candidate in 2012. Surprisingly she, however, succeeded in becoming a president. Who supported Park, naming her as a representative of women? This question is related to the controversy among women elites over support for Park as an female politician in the past ten years. In the perspective of christian feminist ethics, this paper tried to contribute to the task of making gender-equality society through the creative conflicts between Park regime and progressive feminist camp.

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