Park Geun-hye (; ; often in English ; born 2 February 1952) is a former South Korean politician who served as President of South Korea from 2013 until 2017 when she was impeached and later convicted on related corruption charges. Park was the first woman to be President of South Korea and also the first female president popularly elected as head of state in East Asia. She was also the first South Korean president to be born after the founding of First Republic of Korea. Her father, Park Chung-hee, was the president from 1963 to 1979, serving five consecutive terms after he seized power in 1961.