Park Geun-hye Quotes
I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
Park, Geun-hye. Victory Speech, Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul, 19 Dec. 2012. As quoted in "South Korea Elects First Female President," The New York Times, 19 Dec. 2012.
Brat, a college professor, had never run for any political office before. His opponent, Eric Cantor, outspent him by a ratio of nearly 25 to 1. Cantor spent more on steak dinners than Brat spent in total for his whole campaign.
He was referring to the historical and traditional American political argument of whether the country should be more or less multicultural. There have, even before the founding of the country, this people who favored not only new people from new cultures and nations, but adopting new and foreign ideas. At the same time, there were those who wanted the American culture to not be corrupted of even changed significantly by large number of new people or those new people reaching positions of influence or power. They also often opposed foreign ideas from certain religions to foreign science; from foreign law to foreign philosophy. This interview was just after the Donald Trump Presidential victory.
Park Geun-hye 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.
