Vision and Policy Direction of the Park Geun-hye Administration and its East Asia Diplomacy
Saenuri Party candidate Park Geun-hye was elected the president of South Korea with 51.6% of the vote in the 18 presidential election on December 19, 2012. It was a very close match between Park and Moon Jae-in, the Democratic Party candidate, until the day of the election, but the result was Park’s victory by a relatively wide margin of more than 1 million votes. Park was successful in her second attempt at a presidential election, after losing the 2007 presidential candidate election to her rival, Lee Myung-bak, who became South Korea’s Vision and Policy Direction of the Park Geun-hye Administration and its East Asia Diplomacy