Park Geun-hye Quotes
We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
Park, Geun-hye. Presidential bid announcement speech, Seoul, 10 July 2012. As quoted in "Park declares presidential bid, vowing to boost welfare, 'economic democratization'," Yonhap News Agency, 10 July 2012.
[The metaphor of the stone tablets revers to Moses coming down the mountain and his interaction with God, carrying the 10 Commandments carved in stone tablets.]
She had done a monumental exposé of the Standard Oil Company illegal and immoral activities. The public was so aroused that many reforms were instituted and the Standard Oil Company Trust was broken up into many smaller companies. Tarbell was then, in the words of S. S. McClure, “the most famous woman in America.”
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.