Park Geun-hye is the 11th and present President of South Korea and the first woman to hold such a position in the history of the country. Her father Park Chung-hee was the 3rd President, military general and dictator of South Korea. Following assassination attempt on her father in 1974 that killed her mother, Park Geun-hye played the part of the first lady till the time her father was assassinated in 1979. She has emerged as the first woman head of state of South Korea. Prior to becoming the president of the country, she became the vice chairman of the ‘Grand National Party’ and after tenure of six years won election to chair the party. For four consecutive terms starting from 1998 she served the ‘Korean National Assembly’ as a constituency representative while in the fifth term she served as a proportional representative starting from June 2012. The ‘Forbes’ magazine named her as the most powerful woman of East Asia in 2013 and 2014.